Quotes of: Poets Keyword

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Fear And Trembling / Repetition

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

Where even ravi (the sun) cannot reach, there will go a kavi (poet)." - Vimalananda

Aghora II: Kundalini

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

The Isle of Blood

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

The Sense of an Ending

when you're a poet you can dish out whatever's on your mind and you don't have to apologize for it

Skeletons

'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

No Laughing Matter

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Daisy, simple and discreet flower, That earned the heart of this poet.

Small Portion: a little taste of poetry

There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three.

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--

The Prelude

Poetry expresses emotion. What does your inner poet convey?

Wings of the Wind: A Cornucopia of Poetry

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

Eugene Cernan

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Mark Strand

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Novalis

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Paul Muldoon

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.

Pablo Neruda

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

Philippe Petit

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art

Percy Bysshe Shelley

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

Robert Graves

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell