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Poet Quotes (page 35)

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past. Oscar Wilde
John Barth quote: "... a man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet."
... a man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet. John Barth
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole. Seamus Heaney
I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i. e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call "real things. C. S. Lewis
W. H. Auden quote: "As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to..."
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption. W. H. Auden
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem. Virginia Woolf
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not. Haruki Murakami
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. Ursula K. Le Guin
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and... Orhan Pamuk
Sheri S. Tepper quote: "Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it."
Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it. Sheri S. Tepper
Kathy Acker quote: "For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely...."
For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other. Kathy Acker
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of..."
a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time. Vladimir Nabokov
Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him C. S. Lewis
Sigmund Freud quote: "Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me."
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. Sigmund Freud

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