982 Quotes About Poet

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,and you're hampered by not having any,the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny.No - not so that chance shall decide the affairwhile you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air,you suddenly know what you're hoping.

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

كمن يعود من فردوس مفقود عدتُ من عناقك.‏ كمن يعود من بلد السيوف عدتُ من دموعك.‏ توثبٌ متأخرٌ بقي مثل حلمٍ بين تلك المساءات.‏ ثم رحتُ أُدرك الليالي.‏ والانكسارات.‏

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe

The eclipses of poets are not foretold in the calendar.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.