684 Quotes About Poets

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

Procreation annihilates eternity.

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

Le Poëte est semblable au prince des nuéesQui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer;Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree

When someone says the world is mostly water, I say, And poets.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.