684 Quotes About Poets

depth and substance.the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poemor a person.

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger;invisible hands draw back the curtains,a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dustof the piano...

Again I resume the longlesson: how small a thingcan be pleasing, how littlein this hard world it takesto satisfy the mindand bring it to its rest.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

A pear should come to the table popped with juice,Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On termsLike these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.