684 Quotes About Poets

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.

What we call life is only talk of nature.

সাহিত্য বিশ্বরহস্যের একটি পরম রহস্য। সাহিত্য শ্রদ্ধার বস্তু, সাহিত্য পবিত্রতার প্রতীক, সাহিত্য-চিরন্তনের বাহক। ‘কবিতা অমৃত, আর কবিরা অমর।

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

Clocks are as pointless on the Tennessee as poets are on Earth.

Poetry never plays a more important role than it does during revolutionary periods; poetry gave the revolution its voice and in return the revolution liberated poetry from isolation; the poet now knows he is being heard by the people, especially young people; for youth, poetry and revolution are one and the same.

In a world where people talk more, we poets choose to write down.

Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of death.

Some people stay in our heart forever!