Quotes About Poets

Their special scent is a part of many of our perfumes. Photos or paintings of roses grace calendars, cards and advertisements. Poets and songwriters frequently use the romantic symbolism

Os poetas são valiosíssimos aliados, cujo testemunho deve estimar-se em alto grau, pois costumam conhecer muitas coisas existentes no céu e na terra, que a nossa filosofia nem sequer suspeita. Na psicologia, sobretudo, encontram-se homens vulgares muito acima de nós, pois bebem na fonte a que não conseguimos ainda fazer chegar a ciência.

Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that are not to be mentioned.

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.

There were poets before Homer.

È vero, sono uno stupido! I poeti sono stupidi come mosche contro un vetro! Sbattono contro l'invisibile per arraffare un po' di cielo!»

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.

Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

Browning calls the poet God's spy and that's a complimentary way of putting it. We could say, more neutrally, that writers are almost always spies and have the kinds of lives that spying creates. They are constantly collecting information, making mental notes.

Thick mist swirled up from the river. Someone, Who claimed to have known me years before, Approached, saying there were many poets Wandering around who wished to be alive again. They were ready to say the words they had been unable to say— Words whose absence had been the silence of love, Of pain, and even of pleasure. —Mark Strand, from "XLV," Dark Harbor: A Poem (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994)

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined

During this time he got news that a famous statue of Orpheus, enshrined in south Macedon, had started to sweat profusely. The seers, pondering the omen, decided that the new King's exploits would give the poets work.

Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

This book, this actual book, is set right here, on Earth. It is about the meaning of life and nothing at all. It is about what it takes to kill somebody, and save them. It is about love and dead poets and wholenut peanut butter.

played the piano every night and made the most superficial acquaintances with poets and painters and artists that often only lasted a night.

It is about love and dead poets and wholenut peanut butter.

mad Napoleonic-posturing poets; and psychologically impaired dilettantes who assumed their renditions and imitations of Wintergarten headliners were superior to the originals.

The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety.

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.