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Poet Quotes (page 16)

In his Comedy, Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet, as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such ill use of him: a clear proof that even in the days of Dante one praised the ancients without knowing why. This respect for poets one does not understand and yet wishes to equal is the source of the bad writing in our literature. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Rollo May quote: "The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line."
The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line. Rollo May
W. H. Auden quote: "A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but..."
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. W. H. Auden
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Theology does not thrive in the world of action and reaction, change: it grows on calm, like the scum on a stagnant pool. And it flourishes, it prospers, on decline. Only in a world where everything is patently being lost can a priest stir men's hearts as a poet would by maintaining that nothing is in vain. John Gardner
Theodore Roethke quote: "I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet."
I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet. Theodore Roethke
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. Virginia Woolf
And this tenderness was not like. That which a certain poet. At the beginning of the century called true. And, for some reason, quiet. No, not at all. It rang out, like the first waterfall, It crunched like the crust of bluish ice. And it prayed with a swanlike voice, And it broke down right before our eyes. Anna Akhmatova
David Sedaris quote: " but all of a sudden they’re poets, right, like that’s all it..."
.. but all of a sudden they’re poets, right, like that’s all it takes — being in love. David Sedaris
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Elizabeth Gilbert
The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together. T. S. Eliot
Basil Bunting quote: "The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty..."
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line. Basil Bunting
Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood. Federico Garcia Lorca
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Every poet has trembled on the verge of science."
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science. Henry David Thoreau
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated. Alexander Dumas

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