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Poets Quotes

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can 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

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise Picture Quote #1

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines Picture Quote #1

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission Picture Quote #1

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons Picture Quote #1

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Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I’ve had poets tell me to my face that an actress can’t be a poet Picture Quote #1

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places Picture Quote #1

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! Picture Quote #1

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes Picture Quote #1

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers Picture Quote #1

A. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it Picture Quote #1

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped Picture Quote #1

Poets can’t worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don’t want to hear Picture Quote #1

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view Picture Quote #1

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil Picture Quote #1

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam Picture Quote #1

Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently Picture Quote #1

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic Picture Quote #1

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen Picture Quote #1

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help Picture Quote #1

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them Picture Quote #1

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That’s why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it Picture Quote #1

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death Picture Quote #1

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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world Picture Quote #1

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age Picture Quote #1

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain Picture Quote #1

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground Picture Quote #1

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him Picture Quote #1

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle Picture Quote #1

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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can (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 (Poets Quotes) There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise (Poets Quotes) When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines (Poets Quotes) Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission (Poets Quotes) How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons (Poets Quotes) Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I’ve had poets tell me to my face that an actress can’t be a poet (Poets Quotes) Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places (Poets Quotes) Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! (Poets Quotes) Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes (Poets Quotes) Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers (Poets Quotes) A. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it (Poets Quotes) Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped (Poets Quotes) Poets can’t worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don’t want to hear (Poets Quotes) Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view (Poets Quotes) Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil (Poets Quotes) Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam (Poets Quotes) Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently (Poets Quotes) Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic (Poets Quotes) I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen (Poets Quotes) The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help (Poets Quotes) Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them (Poets Quotes) Lyrics have to be underwritten. That’s why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it (Poets Quotes) The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death (Poets Quotes) Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world (Poets Quotes) Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age (Poets Quotes) The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain (Poets Quotes) We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground (Poets Quotes) He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him (Poets Quotes) More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle (Poets Quotes)

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