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Poet Quotes (page 12)

Elizabeth Bishop quote: "Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours,..."
Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations! Elizabeth Bishop
Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead. Erik Larson
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul! E. M. Forster
Zelda Fitzgerald quote: "nobody hs ever mesured, not even poets, how much the hert cn..."
nobody hs ever mesured, not even poets, how much the hert cn hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful. Dan Simmons
Wallace Stevens quote: "A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman."
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. Wallace Stevens
Jewel moved 432,000 hardcover copies of A Night Without Armor, thereby making her the best-selling American poet of the past fifty years. Chuck Klosterman
Would I be commenting on Amy Fisher? Was that the sort of subject that someone who hoped to become poet laureate should discuss? Would those British laureates who had traditionally written about royal birthdays and royal jubilees have dealt with such goings on? Calvin Trillin
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets. Audre Lorde
Fernando Pessoa quote: "To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no..."
To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet. Fernando Pessoa
There is scarcely any great author in European literature, old or new, who has not distinguished himself in his treatment of the supernatural. In English literature, I believe there is no exception from the time of the Anglo-Saxon poets to Shakespeare, and from Shakespeare to our own day. And this introduces us to the consideration of a general and remarkable fact, a fact that I do not remember to have seen in any books, but which is of very great philosophical importance: there is something... Lafcadio Hearn
Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority is what they have been whispering into their ears for ages. Charles Simic
Philip Sidney quote: "...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth."
...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. Philip Sidney
Dan Simmons quote: " pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a..."
... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ... Dan Simmons
No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted. W. H. Auden

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