Quotes About Famous Poets

#1. What if it's just a big, cosmic joke?
Then ... laugh!
.85.

Dee Lestari

#2. The world can absorb only doses of truth," he said; "too much would kill it." One sought education in order to adjust the dose.

Henry Adams

#3. A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Aberjhani

#4. What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming?

Aberjhani

#5. I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#6. Two busts guard the secret door in the Poets Corner - the most famous of the modern mage poets, Carroll and Seuss.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes

Benny Bellamacina

#8. Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite.

Anthony Hecht

#9. To retire is to begin to die.

Pablo Casals

#10. I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

Aberjhani

#11. In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Aberjhani

#12. During this time he got news that a famous statue of Orpheus, enshrined in south Macedon, had started to sweat profusely. The seers, pondering the omen, decided that the new King's exploits would give the poets work.

Mary Renault

#13. I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.

Donald Hall

#14. Please welcome Professor Varen Nethers, famous depressed dead poets historian and author of the bestselling books Unlocking your Poe-tential: A Writer's Guide, and Mo Poe Fo Yo: When You Just Can't Get Enough.

Kelly Creagh

#15. Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Aberjhani

#16. Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

Susanna Kaysen

#17. The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Aberjhani

#18. As far as me and fame, from my creations I'll be dead and famous long before I know it.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#19. There haven't been civilizations without cities. But what about cities without civilizations? An inhuman thing, if possible, to have so many people together who beget nothing on one another. No, but it is not possible, and the dreary begets its own fire, and so this never happens.

Saul Bellow

#20. In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

#21. Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Aberjhani

#22. There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

Tom Wolfe

#23. Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.

Donald Hall

#24. To say I'm an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

Tina Fey