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Poets Quotes

Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us Picture Quote #1

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind Picture Quote #1

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn’t a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided 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

What primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about Picture Quote #1

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people Picture Quote #1

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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time Picture Quote #1

Because poets feel what we’re afraid to feel, venture where we’re reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks Picture Quote #1

Making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill Picture Quote #1

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry Picture Quote #1

If you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets Picture Quote #1

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Poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind’s unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us Picture Quote #1

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind Picture Quote #1

It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural Picture Quote #1

I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now Picture Quote #1

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won’t work Picture Quote #1

When a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered Picture Quote #1

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We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space Picture Quote #1

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo Picture Quote #1

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers Picture Quote #1

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words Picture Quote #1

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra Picture Quote #1

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions Picture Quote #1

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Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men... whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd Picture Quote #1

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us Picture Quote #1

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry Picture Quote #1

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend Picture Quote #1

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another Picture Quote #1

I’m afraid I take... this rather clinical view of love: it’s saving you from madness. I’m not so enthusiastic as other poets have been Picture Quote #1

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Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us (Poets Quotes) I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind (Poets Quotes) I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn’t a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided (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 (Poets Quotes) What primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about (Poets Quotes) Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people (Poets Quotes) Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time (Poets Quotes) Because poets feel what we’re afraid to feel, venture where we’re reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks (Poets Quotes) Making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors (Poets Quotes) Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill (Poets Quotes) Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry (Poets Quotes) If you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets (Poets Quotes) Poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind’s unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us (Poets Quotes) Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind (Poets Quotes) It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural (Poets Quotes) I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now (Poets Quotes) I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won’t work (Poets Quotes) When a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered (Poets Quotes) We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space (Poets Quotes) Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo (Poets Quotes) In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers (Poets Quotes) For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words (Poets Quotes) On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra (Poets Quotes) Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions (Poets Quotes) Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men... whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd (Poets Quotes) Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us (Poets Quotes) As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry (Poets Quotes) Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend (Poets Quotes) One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another (Poets Quotes) I’m afraid I take... this rather clinical view of love: it’s saving you from madness. I’m not so enthusiastic as other poets have been (Poets Quotes)

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