Quotes about Poets, page 2

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about poets

Type: Poet Quotes Category: Scottish Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 1732 Year of Death: 1769 Nationality: Scottish Find on Amazon: William Falconer Related Authors: Norman MacCaig Ian Hamilton Finlay Alexander Smith...

Quote by William Falconer about poets

The morning air, on the contrary, so celebrated both by poets and philosophers for its benign and cheering effects upon the mind and body, is enjoyed in high perfection by persons of this way of life; and the advantages they derive from thence in...

Quote by William Falconer about poets

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Quote by Federico Fellini about poets

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about poets

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about poets

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Quote by Billy Joel about poets

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Quote by Edward A. Murphy about poets

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Quote by Sigmund Freud about poets

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poets

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poets

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poets

There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poets

Travelers are like poets, they are mostly an angry race.

Quote by Richard Burton about poets

If the server is down I'm still a poet?

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about poets

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poets

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poets

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poets

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poets

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poets