Poet Quotes - Page 19
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy (1998). “Hardy: Selected Poems”, p.200, Penguin
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.429, Macmillan
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
Samuel Beckett (2013). “Selected Poems 1930-1988”, p.10, Faber & Faber
Speech in New York, 13 May 1960, in New York Times 14 May 1960, p. 47
Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”
Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: a tribute”
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
"The French-American Review" by Texas Christian University, p. 132, 1976.
"The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1)". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.
Norman O. Brown (1991). “Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis”, p.10, Univ of California Press
Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
Max Eastman (1939). “Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics”
Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.12, Wave Books