Quotes About Poet

The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to the about-turns of the mind.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

El poeta es un mentiroso que siempre dice la verdad.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. –

Bresson est à part dans ce métier terrible. Il s'exprime cinématographiquement comme un poète par la plume. Vaste est l'obstacle entre sa noblesse, son silence, son sérieux, ses rêves et tout un monde où ils passent pour de l'hésitation et de la manie.

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

It is the poet who goes further than any human scientist. The poet who with her dredging net must haul up difficult things and return them to the present.

I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our behaviour.

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't.

I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.

We have returned to Italy because we cannot live in England. Small-minded, smug, self-righteous, unjust, a country that hates the stranger, whether that stranger be a foreigner or an atheist, or a poet, or a thinker, or a radical, or a woman. For women are strange to men.

With the poet, it is gold and silver, but with the philosopher it is iron and corn, which have civilized men, and ruined mankind.

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. —Aristophanes, Greek comic poet (c. 450-385 BCE)

It takes a poet to read a river and a community to make a response.

Every true poet is a monster. He destroys people and their speech. His singing elevates a technique that wipes out the earth so we are not eaten by worms. The drunk sells his coat. The thief sells his mother. Only the poet sells his soul to separate it from the body that he loves.

And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?