Greatest Poets Quotes

#1. Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

Hugh Laurie

#2. I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible.

Phoebe Tonkin

#3. Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

Robert Adamson

#4. Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

Raymond Sokolov

#5. Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you meet are illiterate or covered head to toe in black burkas or looking for buildings to blow up? It's a puzzle, isn't it? If you ever figure these people out, send me an e-mail.

Aravind Adiga

#6. The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

Stephen Spender

#7. Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

Andrei Codrescu

#8. The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

Francois Mauriac

#9. I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person ...

Judie Brown

#10. Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.

Louie Schwartzberg

#11. Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple acts of kindness and caring we extend to those we meet along the path of life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#12. Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
[Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]

Lucretius

#13. And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the absolute or the infinite; but, in his own larger language, a local habitation and a name.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

Ben Harper

#15. Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

Mary MacLane

#16. A heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers.

Jim Thompson

#17. I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Jandy Nelson

#18. Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. TEN GREATEST ENGLISH POETS Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning. TEN GREATEST ENGLISH ESSAYISTS Bacon, Addison, Steele, Macaulay, Lamb, Jeffrey, De Quincey, Carlyle, Thackeray and Matthew Arnold.

Joseph Devlin

#20. Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

Iveta Cherneva

#21. When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.

Wislawa Szymborska

#22. Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

James Russell Lowell

#23. I'm not going anywhere!" said Harry fiercely. "One of my best friends is Muggle-born; she'll be first in line if the Chamber really has been opened ...

J.K. Rowling

#24. The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Christopher Morley

#25. We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

Winston Churchill

#26. Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Miguel De Cervantes

#27. We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

Oscar Wilde

#28. Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#29. At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Herman Melville

#30. For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradictThe hopes of my youth? ...

Mikhail Lermontov