Blind Poet Quotes

#1. It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

Anthony Venn-Brown

#2. A great poet must have the ear of a wild Arab listening in the silent desert, the eye of a North American Indian tracing the footsteps of an enemy upon the leaves that strew the forest, the touch of a blind man feeling the face of a darling child.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#3. The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology.

John G. Kemeny

#4. A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

Vera Nazarian

#5. The conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors] ... to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.

Richard M. Rorty

#6. My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right.

Pat Conroy

#7. They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.

John Milton

#8. We drank everything his favorite poet drank-Bukowski- and like Bukowski's women, I matched him drink for drink.
We drank each other blind.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#9. The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

David B. Lentz

#10. Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Cheyenne Jackson

#11. One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

Lin-Manuel Miranda