Quotes:Words become luminous when the
poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence
View quotes by Joseph JoubertGenius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate
Poet)
View quotes by Owen MeredithI think a future flight should include a
poet, a priest and a philosopher we might get a much better idea of what we saw.
View quotes by Michael CollinsThe
poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
View quotes by Virginia WoolfThere is something about a
poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
View quotes by James ThurberThe little girl had the making of a
poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning before she spoke, said 'How can I know what I think till I see what I say?'
View quotes by Graham WallasI have never believed that the critic is the rival of the
poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
View quotes by Harold BloomDeath most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a
poet who is a stranger among his people.
View quotes by Kahlil GibranIn the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a
poet.
View quotes by Siegfried SassoonA sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a
poet in words, a musician by sounds.
View quotes by Henry MooreAnd once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)
Knock at a star with my exalted head (The Bad Season Makes the
Poet Sad)
View quotes by Robert HerrickA musician must make music, an artist must paint, a
poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
View quotes by Abraham MaslowMany brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred
poet.
View quotes by HoraceTo the
poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo EmersonPoetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the
poet does.
View quotes by Allen GinsbergGossip is the tool of the
poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinleyA
poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
View quotes by Kahlil GibranFrancis Webb is easily our greatest
poet and one of the greatest
poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.
View quotes by Robert AdamsonNone but a
poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of
poetry.
View quotes by Edith HamiltonAs a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a
poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
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