Poets Quotes - Page 6

. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.

The bats inebriate the sky . . .

. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

We say God and the imagination are one . . .
How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Poetry is a finikin thing of air
That lives uncertainly and not for long
Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say.

On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.

The world will not be saved by poets or poetry.

All poets are religious poets.

Poets should be crazy-but only in their poems.

Cities are built out of poet's dreams.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

You don’t know anything, but I know even less.

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him-except instructors and their hapless students.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

There can be no forced inspiration.

The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.

In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.

You don't sound like a scientist; you sound like a poet."
Rey smiled.
"Can I be both?"
"But you'd rather be a poet."
"Who wouldn't?" he said.