“ Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ”
- Zelda Fitzgerald- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
- 589
“ As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' — probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
- 559
“ The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
- 946
“ We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. ”
- John Fowles- Copy
- 472
“ You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 816
“ Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The job of the poet is to render the world — to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. ”
- Mark Van Doren- Copy
- 3K
“ The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ”
- Edmund Spenser- Copy
- 449
“ Alone! — that worn-out word,So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;Yet all that poets sing and grief hath knownOf hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE! ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 2K
“ Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see. ”
- William Ellery Channing- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Poetry is the utterance of truth — deep, heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle. ”
- E. H. Chapin- Copy
- 886
“ It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ”
- B. K. Sandwell- Copy
- 3.1K
“ A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ”
- Salvatore Quasimodo- Copy
- 1.4K
“ According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. ”
- Salvatore Quasimodo- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2K
“ Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. ”
- Michael Bruce- Copy
- 150
“ When Man and Woman die, as Poets sung,His Heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 842
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