Poets Quotes & Sayings
These poets quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. - Robert Frost
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers. - George Santayana
Then give me leave to love, & love me too Not with designs To raise, as Loves curst Rebels doe, When puling Poets whine, Fame to their beauty, from their blubbr'd eyn. - Thomas Carew
It is not the business of art to follow reality. Reality follows art. When we gaze at a sunset, we do not see it 'as it is', as an amalgam of Copernicus's vision of the earth's revolution round the sun and Max Planck's quantum theory of light. We see it through the eyes of generations of painters and poets who have infused into the spectacle the lofty symbol of aspiration and resignation or the grandeur of celestial harmony. [This Star of England] - Charlton Ogburn, Jr.
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing, in itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane. - Joyce Carol Oates
Money has a power above The stars and fate, to manage love: Whose arrows, learned poets hold, That never miss, are tipped with gold. - Samuel Butler