684 Quotes About Poets

  • Author G.K. Chesterton
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    It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden.

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It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden.

-G.K. Chesterton

the gods are created by poets" --Ovid

-Ovid

If you are good, they say you are weak.

-Dejan Stojanovic

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.

-Salman Rushdie

  • Author Nowottny
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    If the power of a language to endure through time and change depends on its power to convert old apparatus to new uses, we should regard the poet not only as a source of poems but also as one who does something of incalculable importance for the future of the language.

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If the power of a language to endure through time and change depends on its power to convert old apparatus to new uses, we should regard the poet not only as a source of poems but also as one who does something of incalculable importance for the future of the language.

-Nowottny

And what do the poets have to say about it?— They only lie!

-Jaroslav Seifert

Burn the bad news,I don't want it!Give me instead SOUL FOOD,from within I want to be lit!

-Adiela Akoo

I AM crazy and bold enough to think that I CAN change the world.

-Adiela Akoo

I AM crazy and bold enough to think that I CAN change the world.... one poem at a time

-Adiela Akoo

 

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