684 Quotes About Poets

Ideas are cumbersome and can't fly on their own; they need a poet to give them wings.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' whoThat it's namin'For the loser nowWill be later to winFor the times they are a-changin'.

I want to be the one you run to.I want to be the one you miss.I want your arms to hold me through.I want your lips to be mine to kiss.I want to be the one you’re in love with. Eyes opening up my heart like a locksmith.I want to be the one you snuggle. Together creating jealous couples. Love is one of the greatest treasures.Something that cannot be measured.Take me with you on this journey.As long as we’re together, there’re no worries.

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.

I live there...where the birds are infiniteeverywherewhere they fleeit's a place your eyes can wanderbut never seeWhere everyone accepts me,Without any pretenseIt's a place your mind can picturebut never really comprehend.

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.