Quotes of: True-poet Keyword

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

True humanity knows no animosity.

From Poet's Hand

To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.

Hyperion

Love is the true wealth, which can do entirely without wealth.

From Poet's Hand

if what is true brings us sorrow, / if what sorrow brings is truth

New Poets, Short Books, Volume V

Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.

The Forsaken

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

The Dream Songs: Poems

...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethian Age

The so-called poet with his vague dreams and ideals is indeed no better than a harmless lunatic; the true poet is the worker, who grips life's throat and wrings out its secret, who selects austerely and composes concisely, whose work is as true and c...

The Psychology of Hashish: An Essay on Mysticism

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its bl...

The American Poet Who Went Home Again

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their mea...

Anathem

Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

Mirrored Voices: Emerging Poets Anthology

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Nikki Giovanni

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Jean Cocteau

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

William Shenstone

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred de Musset

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

Bryant H. McGill

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.

Life

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

James Broughton

...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of a...

Snow

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

Russell Simmons