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Poet Quotes (page 38)

Heraclitus quote: "The poet was a foolwho wanted no conflictamong us, godsor..."
The poet was a foolwho wanted no conflictamong us, godsor people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needsman and woman. Heraclitus
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.... Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot. George Eliot
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. Robert A. Heinlein
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. Gilbert K. Chesterton
If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni. W. H. Auden
Robert Burton quote: "All Poets are mad."
All Poets are mad. Robert Burton
while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. Vladimir Nabokov
If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches Rainer Maria Rilke
Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How long, O Lord? Darrell Johnson
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "Was this the bright vastness the poet Bash saw when he wrote..."
Was this the bright vastness the poet Bash saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea? Yasunari Kawabata
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent. Giacomo Casanova
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to..."
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. Dorothy L. Sayers
I'm...like a poet hidden. In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Percy Bysshe Shelley
There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society and the genteel conventions, but hadn't enough intelligence or enough conceit to think themselves transcendentalists or poets, in the style of Thoreau or of Walt Whitman. George Santayana

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