684 Quotes About Poets

The bats inebriate the sky . . .

A single wire hanger on a nail by itselfIsn't bad though a stack of them on a floorIs too gloomy for words.

Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

Tis not the greatest singer Who tries the loftiest themes,He is the true joy bringer, Who tells his simplest dreams.He is the greatest poet, Who will renounce all art,And take his heart and show it To every other heart;Who writes no learned riddle, But sings his simplest rune,Takes his heart strings for a fiddle, And plays his easiest tune~ Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)[From Back Country Poems, 1892]

It takes a poet to re - member grief , humiliation , rage and ecstasy , to mine her own sweet soul and ravaged heart a thousand times to forge a wonder tale so true each listener will know just how and why they too might choose to dare , flee , love , or lie .

Invite him to poetry club," Doff said with a smirk. "See if he asks you to take a look at his Emily Dickinson."Beatrice snorted. "How long did it take you to think that up?""Most of lunch, and the rest of G block," Doff said, shrugging modestly. "I started with 'read his Charles Dickens,' but Charles Dickens is a novelist.""What about his Philip K. Dick?""Who's that?" asked Doff."He wrote the book that got turned into Blade Runner.

Poets are gardeners of the human soul.

Oh, oh!' said Renzo, 'you are a poet!'To comprehend this witticism of poor Renzo, it is necessary to be informed, that in the eyes of the vulgar of Milan, and more particularly in its environs, the name of poet did not signify, as among cultivated people, a sublime genius, an inhabitant of Pindus, a pupil of the muses, but a whimsicality and eccentricity in discourse and conduct, which had more of singularity than sense; and an absurd wresting of words from their legitimate signification.

the absence of activity in her life is matched by the phenomenal activity of her intellect