684 Quotes About Poets

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.

you wanted it all to make senseand you wanted the most complicated answer, but the answer is simple.just be.

woman-another word for beginning.another word for revolution.another word for healing.another word for being.another word for me.

I have a romanticised idea about dedicating myself to my work, to live and die for it and let nothing else interrupt. To live and learn all there is to live and learn in order to be a great writer, a great artist: all I came here to be.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from.