982 Quotes About Poet
- Author Charlotte Eriksson
-
Quote
I turned myself into an artist because then my life would be about creating meaning out of ugliness and that would be my life, and it was noble. It was the beginning of a journey, the creating of the world every single day and I was not bored. I was ecstasy and creation and nothingness turned into melodies and I was dancing with the spirits.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Howard Zinn
-
Quote
The poet Archibald MacLeish, then an Assistant Secretary of State, spoke critically of what he saw in the postwar world: "As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief . . . without moral purpose or human interest. . . .
- Tags
- Share
- Author George Eliot
-
Quote
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Avijeet Das
-
Quote
Struggle for your art. Die for your art. But you can never ever give up on your art.
- Tags
- Share
- Author ANON
-
Quote
Why do they take "artist" so lightly?Do they know what art is? Seriously?
- Tags
- Share
- Author Avijeet Das
-
Quote
When I met her, she was going through a depression in life. She was not able to find her purpose in life. She would smile on the outside, but inside she was going through myriad difficulties. I don't know what it was about me that made her tell me about her thoughts. May be she felt that I could understand her. Writers and poets are expected to understand the perspectives of other people. And I was a writer and wanderer, never staying at one place for long.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Thomas Aquinas
-
Quote
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.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Shah Asad Rizvi
-
Quote
Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Kamand Kojouri
-
Quote
Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.
- Tags
- Share