Quotes about Poets, page 4

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Karl Jaspers

Quote by Karl Jaspers about poets

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Quote by Irwin Allen Ginsberg about poets

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Quote by Irwin Allen Ginsberg about poets

I say with all frankness and I must confess that my experience as a poet helped me a lot for understanding the poetry of others. Poetic experience, successful or not, has served me and serve me still for understanding the meaning of poetry in...

Quote by Ion Pop about poets

if a poet takes too much from a single model is a worthless imitator, if one takes a few from hundreds is original.

Quote by Gavriil Stiharul about poets

The poet is not only a savior, but he is the savior of the words. He takes out the words from their natural state and gives them a state of grace.

Quote by Lucian Blaga about poets

I am the heart in the heart of my people And I am singing its songs, its love, and its hatred. You are the source and purpose for everything that I sing.

Quote by George Coșbuc about poets

Poets, it is in their nature, they do this through each act of artistic creation. They try "to say" as never "had been said" before; they are trying to rediscover the language and they behave, when they are "inspired" - as if the language had not...

Quote by Mircea Eliade about poets

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Quote by Bob Dylan about poets