Quotes of: Poet Keyword

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

Hyperion

The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.

Ion

There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or die trying

Return to Stantasyland

Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or die trying

Return to Stantasyland

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.

The Moon and Sixpence

You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet; because poetry is beyond hooks and holes.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

She lends her pen, to thoughts of him, that flow from it, in her solitary. For she is his poet, And he is her poetry.

Love & Misadventure

Sex is difficult; yes. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

Letters to a Young Poet

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

Letters to a Young Poet

Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Ideas were found by the freethinker, expressed by poet with the new words, formulated by scholar into knowledge.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Poet To mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds. For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in weeds

Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

The Purloined Letter

Certainly, he was the only one in the room who'd actually engaged Dante in direct conversation and informed the Poet he was an ass.

The Prince

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Paladin of Souls

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

The Poet

The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish

Tuesdays with Morrie

I’d Poe’s nude for the approval of a dead poet. No names come to mind, but I’m sure there must be one I’d get naked for.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Under the Dome