684 Quotes About Poets

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

We are all poets, really.

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.