Poet Quotes - Page 21

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.