Poets Quotes - Page 3

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is the key.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

God is a cloud from which rain fell.

God is busy and has no time for you.

When following God, Zero we never find.

Hope without love is hopeless.