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| I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. | B. K. Sandwell | |
| To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. | Gaston Bachelard | 1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist |
| Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets. | Irving Layton | 1912-, Canadian Poet |
| The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. | Stephane Mallarme | 1842-1898, French Symbolist Poet |
| Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. | Vissarion Belinsky | |
| The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. | Louis Kronenberger | |
| Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. | Donald Trump | 1946-, American Businessman |
| Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. | T. S. Eliot | 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic |
| A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. | Abraham H. Maslow | 1908-1970, American Psychologist |
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| This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. | Allen Ginsberg | 1926-, American Poet |
| Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. | Alphonse De Lamartine | 1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian |
| Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet |
| These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. | Aristophanes | BC 448-380, Greek Comic Poet, Satirist |
| It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. | Basil Bunting | 1900-1985, British Poet |
| A good poet's made as well as born. | Ben Johnson | 1600-?British Clergyman, Poet |
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| When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. | Bob Dylan | 1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. | Bodenstedt | |
| I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself. | Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967, American Poet |
| The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvellous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvellous; but we do not notice it. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. | Dame Edith Sitwell | 1887-1964, British Poet |
| The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. | David Hare | 1947-, British Playwright, Director |
| When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. | Denis Diderot | 1713-1784, French Philosopher |
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| Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. | Don Marquis | 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist |
| A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. | E(lwyn) B(rooks) White (1899-1985, American Author, Editor | |
| With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. | Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer |
| None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. | Edith Hamilton | 1867-1963, American Classical Scholar, Translator |
| We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist |
| Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle. | Edwin Hubbel Chapin | 1814-1880, American Author, Clergyman |
| If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. | Emily Dickinson | 1830-1886, American Poet |
| More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. | Eugene Field | 1850-1895, American Writer |
| No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic |
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| If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. | Fran Lebowitz | 1951-, American Journalist |
| Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. | Franz Kafka | 1883-1924, German Novelist, Short-Story Writer |
| The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. | Frederick W. Robertson | |
| Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the ''genius'' of the personage, the greater the profit. | George Grosz | |
| Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. | George William Curtis | 1824-1892, American Journalist |
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