982 Quotes About Poet
- Author Hamka
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Mataku merenung alam. Menunggu datangnya syair
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- Author Suman Pokhrel
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A reader cannot take poetry by expanding it beyond his/her consciousness, rather can take by shrinking it within.
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- Author August Wilhelm Schlegel
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As the poets for the most part had their share of scholarship, it gave rise to a curious struggle between their natural inclination and their imaginary duty. When they sacrificed to the latter, they were praised by the learned; but by yielding to the former, they became the favourites of the people.
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- Author Frederick Clarke Prescott
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The poet is seldom or never merely describes nature; he inevitably beautifies and glorifies it,
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- Author Samuel Johnson
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To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination: he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.
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- Author Sarah Gambito
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I was a poet when I loved him.
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- Author Jorge Luis Borges
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A writer lives. The task of being a poet is not completed at a fixed schedule. No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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- Author Natalia Corres
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."~ Robert Graves
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- Author Matthew Pearl
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People admired her poetry, but she knew there were plenty of readers who questioned it. How could she write brokenhearted verse if she never loved? Why did she compose so much about death if she knew little of life?
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