Poets Quotes

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

Wisdom, Poetry, Mean

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Heart, Woman

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

Art, Lies, Taught

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

Art, Lies, Taught

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost

Baseball, Tough, Both

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

Money, Business, Poor

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Socrates

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby

Hope, Yourself, Children

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama

Black, Friends, Students

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato

Great, Wise, Understand

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest Hemingway

Crazy, Put, Poet

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Silent, Subject, Cheese

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

Immature, Mature, Steal

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike

Men, Poor, Genius

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot

Important, Write, Possible

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George Orwell

Language, Creation, Workers

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman

Great, Audiences

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

Heart, Nobody, Hold

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Thomas Aquinas

Philosophy, Big, Wonder

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Stephen King

God, Daily, Speak

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Muhammad Iqbal

Die, Born, Hands

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
William Butler Yeats

Made, Learn, Whatever

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. Feynman

Beauty, Science, Night

Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace

Wish, Please, Profit

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.
Carl Sandburg

Happen, Why, After

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
Carl Sandburg

Long, Black, Seen

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Carl Sandburg

Time, Help, Read

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. Lovecraft

Dreams, False, Tales

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.
Henry Miller

Good, Great, Evil

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