Quotes About Poet

I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft charms, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes.

Lope Félix de Vega Carpio nació el 25 de noviembre de 1562, en Madrid, en la Puerta de Guadalajara (parte de la calle Mayor comprendida entre la Cava de San Miguel y la calle de Milaneses) y fué bautizado el 6 del siguiente diciembre en la hoy desaparecida parroquia de San Miguel de los Octoes.

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

that's the nature of marine life and the inland bays I grew up on. You'd have to be a scientist, a poet and a comedian to hope to describe it all accurately, and even then you'd often fall short.

What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter" successfully hides the letter from the police because he is both a poet and a mathematician. Dupin is able to find it because he too meets both conditions.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

in the Greek wording of the Nicene Creed ... we confess God to be literally the "poet of heaven and earth" (poieten ouranou kai ges).

Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice.

The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

I cannot now think symbols less than the greatest of all powers whether they are used consciously by the master of magic or half unconsciously by their successors, the poet, the musician, and the artist.

Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.