Quotes of: Poets Keyword

...the Moon, the enemy of poets... ("Merchant's Two Sons")

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

The Mill on the Floss

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

Moonchild

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.

Maldoror and the Complete Works

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

the poet I saw once... but whose words have long been in my mind, windows of invincible candles...

The Neverfield: Poem

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

The Language of Fashion

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

A Simpler Way

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

The Power of Myth

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

Poet in New York

The poet is rather one who inspires than one inspired.

Ralentir, Travaux = Slow, Under Construction

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

The Transcendent Unity of Religions

Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.

A Touch of Wonder

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

War in Heaven

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Women

Dear Gris, if there's one thing I can't abide it's a bad poet.

When the Sea Is Rising Red

Must be going crazy--- my favorite poet lately has been me!

Westlake: Poems by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Lascelles Abercrombie

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Lafcadio Hearn

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

Jewel

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.

Octavio Paz