Quotes of: Poets Keyword

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

George Grosz

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Jean Giraudoux

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

Donald G. Mitchell

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Philip James Bailey

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Sarah Kay

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Lewis Cass

I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.'

Lesley Ann Warren

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

Eugenio Montale

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Edgar Allan Poe

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

jaime gil de beidma

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Diane Wakoski

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Beatrice Wood

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charles Baudelaire

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

Craig Brown

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart The human power is revealed by poet Il potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Jim Jarmusch

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.

Philip Dunne

Homer, the aged poet: What is wrong with peace that its inspiration doesn't endure?

Wings of Desire

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Howard Nemerov