684 Quotes About Poets

Hope is a most beautiful drug.

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.

All poets are liars.' And they are, aren't they? Inventors of myths and stories, conjurers of emotions, and sometimes cynical pluckers of heartstrings.

In einer Zivilisation von Dichtern sind die Probleme der Gesellschaft gelöst, auch die Angst vor dem Tod ist kein Problem mehr. Den Logos für sich zu gewinnen, das ist doch das Höchste, wonach der Mensch strebt! Hat er das, braucht er kein Paradies mehr.

There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but I truly believe that what some of them do comes from a higher source.

When there is fear,I will have my pen hold high,when the wonders of night give its light, I lie behind the familiar world with a strange crown, not of Lilly,nor of violets,not of hawthorn,not of maple,but burthen words my fallen tears build an avenger’s crown.

Poets and writers are always truth-seekers... I just want people to talk with honest language about what is happening.

Present-day worthy poets’ and writers’ writings and books should be added to the syllabus and studied in the schools, colleges and universities so that the students can taste the new ideas along with the old ones!

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.