Quotes About Poets

Temperamentally, he belonged to that class of poets who Taine says are vessels too weak to contain the spirit of poetry, the poets whom poetry kills, the Byrons, the Burns's, the De Mussets, the Poes.

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.

Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel

loudly for Truth have liars pled, their heels for Freedom slaves will click; where Boobs are holy, poets mad, illustrious punks of Progress shriek; when Souls are outlawed, Hearts are sick, Hearts being sick, Minds nothing can:

There are also many descriptions in the poets and orators, which owe their sublimity to a richness and profusion of images, in which the mind is so dazzled as to make it impossible to attend to that exact coherence and agreement of the allusions, which we should require on every other occasion.

Dicen que los poetas y los intelectuales son los mejores terroristas

It's stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are really what they seem to be And there's nothing to understand.

For us, these five poets formed an alchemist mandala: Neruda was water, Parra air, de Rokha fire, Mistral earth, and Huidobro, in the center, quintessence.

Great poets are all philosophers too profound to systematize their ideas. Inside every dark visionary is a being of insidious reason waiting patiently for his host to die. From the cleft of the creative arises the categorical flower.

We poets are (upon a poet's word)Of all mankind the creatures most absurd:The season when to come, and when to go,To sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd, The greater part by hostile time subdu'd; Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past, And Poets once had promis'd they should last.

Damien, les poètes se sont trompés: est-ce l'esprit du mal qui est l'ange déchu? C'est celui de l'amour, qui, après le grand oeuvre, ne voulut pas quitter la terre, et, tandis que ses frères remontaient au ciel, laissa tomber ses ailes d'or en poudre aux pieds de la beauté qu'il avait créée.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it isn't that they mutter and criticize; it is that the poet does not accept the situation called the 'perfect' condition of man - in other words, perfect in the materialistic sense.

Being in the Sahitya Akademi, I did know quite a few poets - Jayanta Mahapatra, Sitakant Mahapatra, Sunil Gangopadhyay, to name a few. There were many poets.

I know who the great poets are.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

I didn't know any poets growing up in Kansas.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.