The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
Most public speakers talk so badly that a sudden quotation from a poet appears in their babble like a lady in a slum
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
Poets do not go mad but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
Thou mighty Poet, e'en to frenzy bold!
Most surely, it is the Word brought by an honored Apostle, And it is not the word of a poet little is it that you believe Nor the word of a soothsayer little is it that you mind.
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it through life.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.
Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should makes us philosophers
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd The next, in majesty in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go To make a third, she join'd the former two.
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
Poet in Greek means maker. It's the idea of making something that has never been made before.
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
I'm a poet and I've read a lot of Russian poetry and can hear It's sounds. Russian poetry is so important to an understanding of the culture.
I've greased my hair and I'm a little fg poet tonight, alright. I'm the little dark poet, that's who I am.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies.
The only gift is a portion of thyself ... the poet brings his poem the shepherd his lamb....
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind.
I know Helen would be proud, using her as a springboard for the voices of future poets. She was a pen in the hand of God. She had a natural talent and found the proper marketplace to sell her wares. And I know we have talented and gifted writers in this community.
As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.
Poets are born, not paid.
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