Quotes About Poet

The story of Frankenstein, the man created in a laboratory, could be symbolic of these events. It was written by Mary Shelley, the wife of the famous poet. He and she were high initiates of the secret society network which has hoarded and suppressed this knowledge since ancient times.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

God, eldest of Poets.

A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the 'pieds de Dieu'—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

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

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

We need help, the poet reckoned.

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.