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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

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

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

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

"Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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.

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

"The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1)". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

Norman O. Brown (1991). “Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis”, p.10, Univ of California Press

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

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”