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Life Poets Quotes

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life Picture Quote #1

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn’t think I could understand poetry; I didn’t think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem Picture Quote #1

Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life Picture Quote #1

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution Picture Quote #1

[The poets’ role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy Picture Quote #1

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem Picture Quote #1

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Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45 Picture Quote #1

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the God was present and spoke Picture Quote #1

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly Picture Quote #1

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors Picture Quote #1

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie Picture Quote #1

There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate Picture Quote #1

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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old Picture Quote #1

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life Picture Quote #1

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent Picture Quote #1

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist Picture Quote #1

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life Picture Quote #1

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will Picture Quote #1

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The great religions are the ships, poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard Picture Quote #1

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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life (Life Poets Quotes) Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn’t think I could understand poetry; I didn’t think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem. (Life Poets Quotes) Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. (Life Poets Quotes) I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution (Life Poets Quotes) [The poets’ role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy (Life Poets Quotes) Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem (Life Poets Quotes) Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45 (Life Poets Quotes) The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the God was present and spoke (Life Poets Quotes) Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly (Life Poets Quotes) Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors (Life Poets Quotes) Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie (Life Poets Quotes) There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate (Life Poets Quotes) In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old (Life Poets Quotes) He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life (Life Poets Quotes) The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent (Life Poets Quotes) I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist (Life Poets Quotes) New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life (Life Poets Quotes) In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will (Life Poets Quotes) The great religions are the ships, poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard (Life Poets Quotes)