982 Quotes About Poet

Democracy is only as moral and just as those in power, and only as wise as the citizens who elect them.

I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter August when the hayCame creaking to the barn. But whereThe wind is westerly,Where gnarled November makes the spiders flyInto the apparitions of the sky,They purpose nothing but their ease and dieUrgently beating east to sunrise and the sea;

I like longingclimbing up the railings of sound and colorcatching into my open mouththe frozen scentI like my lonelinesssuspended higherthan a bridgeembracing the sky with its armsand my love walking barefoot over the snow

share with me"share with methe daily bread of my lonelinessfill with your presencethe absent wallsgildthe nonexistent windowbe a doorabove all a doorwhich can be thrownwide open

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.

O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is his ears. And as you sleep, your heart and soul rest naked before him. He can drink from the rivers of your thoughts, and even feel the wetness of your tears.

Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.

I've got such a lovely feeling," said Lucy-Ann, looking the picture of happiness. "You know - that feeling you get at the very beginning of a lovely holiday - when all the days spread out before you, sunny & lazy & sort of enchanted.""You'll end up by being a poet if you don't look out," said Philip, from the wheel."Well, if a poet feels like I feel just exactly at this moment, I wouldn't mind being one for the rest of my life, even if it meant having to write poetry," said Lucy-Ann.