Quotes:
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
View quotes by T S Eliot
Poets wish to profit or to please.
View quotes by Horace
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
She knows more of love than the poets can say,
And her eyes offer something that won't go away
View quotes by Harry Chapin
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
View quotes by Thomas Hardy
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.
View quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
View quotes by Rebecca Davis
Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill.
View quotes by Roger Boyle
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
View quotes by Jean Anouilh
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
View quotes by Aristotle
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.
View quotes by Wilfred Owen
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
View quotes by Aristotle
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
View quotes by Robert Frost
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
So have all sages said, all poets sung
View quotes by Jean Ingelow
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
View quotes by Jean Giraudoux
While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep (The Dunciad)
View quotes by Alexander Pope
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. [Wise words indeed]
View quotes by Lucille Clifton
Poets that lasting marble seek
Must carve in Latin or in Greek. (Of English Verse, 1645)
View quotes by Edmund Waller
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed,
Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last (An Essay on Criticism)
View quotes by Alexander Pope
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