Quotes about Poets

69 quotes about Poets

Poor, but poet.

Poor, but poet.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about poets

Melancoly is the second nature of poet.

Melancoly is the second nature of poet.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about poets

Sleepless nights are working days of the poet.

Sleepless nights are working days of the poet.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about poets

Being a poet is a job that hurts!

Being a poet is a job that hurts!

Quote by Costel Zăgan about poets

The poet stands between two illusions: the reality and...

The poet stands between two illusions: the reality and poetry.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about poets

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poets

I think if a third of all novelists and maybe two thirds...

I think if a third of all novelists and maybe two thirds of all the poets now writing dropped dead suddenly, the loss to literature wold not be great.

Quote by Charles Osburne about poets

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the...

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Quote by Harold Bloom about poets

It is natural that, after the epic poet has arrived, the...

It is natural that, after the epic poet has arrived, the crude epic material in which he worked should scarcely be heard of.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

Man creating his own destiny, man, however wearied with the long task of resistance, achieving some conscious community of aspiration, and dreaming of the perfection of himself: the poet whose lovely and noble art makes us a great symbol of that,...

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

No great poetry, of whatever kind, is conceivable unless...

No great poetry, of whatever kind, is conceivable unless the subject has become integrated with the poet's mind and mood.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or...

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

The kind of folk-spirit behind the poet is, indeed, different in the Iliad and Beowulf and the Song of Roland from what it is in Milton and Tasso and Virgil.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for...

I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else.

Quote by Al Alvarez about poets

These impossible women! The poet was right: Can't live...

These impossible women! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them!

Quote by Aristophanes about poets

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies...

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Quote by Aristotel about poets

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