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Poet Quotes (page 25)

Neil Gaiman quote: "If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent..."
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. Neil Gaiman
The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women. Honore de Balzac
love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love, with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another. Nora Roberts
For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. Virginia Woolf
What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality. David Herbert Lawrence
John Quincy Adams quote: "I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his..."
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet. John Quincy Adams
The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory. T. S. Eliot
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar..."
The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone. Nick Hornby
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says..."
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. Jeanette Winterson
Lloyd Alexander quote: "You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must..."
You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic. Lloyd Alexander
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it isbeyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of dayand night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time andspace, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in yourpalpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoeto kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the... Rabindranath Tagore
Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing. Nicholas Sparks
Sherman Alexie quote: "I'm a poet who can whine in meter"
I'm a poet who can whine in meter Sherman Alexie
They say this city can absorb anyone. It does seem that every nationality is here in some part. There are dreamers and poets and landscape painters with dirty noses and wanderers like me who came here by chance and never left. They are all looking for something, travelling the world and theseven seas but looking for a reason to stay. I am not looking, I've found what it is I want.........I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means Ireview my future and my past in the light of... Jeanette Winterson

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