P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Poets and children," said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that.”
Source: The Poet's Dog
“Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.”
“Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.”
Source: Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)
“Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.”
“Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.”
“Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.”
Source: The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
“Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.”
“Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.”
“Poets and philosophers are the happiest, yet the saddest people in the world.”
“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”
Source: Sukoon
“Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.”
“Poets and writers are always truth-seekers... I just want people to talk with honest language about what is happening.”
“Poets and Writers don't lead happy lives. They search for meaning. They are drawn towards wisdom. They search, seek, and enlighten themselves with the mysteries of the world. Unknowingly their lives get engrossed in discovering newer thoughts and philosophies. They suffer a lot from feeling everything deeply. Most often they get wounded by the world. But it is their destiny to suffer and to let in the light.”
“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!”
“Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.”
“Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Poets are always sad. And ironically poets write to make others happy.”
“Poets are always taking the weather so personally.”
Source: FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR
“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”
Source: FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR
“Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.”
Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry
“Poets are band leaders who have failed.”
Source: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
“Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”
Source: The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams
“poets are born knowing the language of angels”
Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles
“Poets are born, not paid.”
Source: The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom
“Poets are cut from a tender cloth that covers our world in beauty”
“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”
“Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.”
“Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.”
Source: The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
“Poets are far rarer birds than kings.”
“Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.”
“Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.”
“Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.”
“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.”
“Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.”
Source: The Survivors of the Chancellor
“Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.”
“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”
“Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”
Source: Essays of Four Decades
“Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.”
“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.”
“Poets are never lonely even when they pretend to be.”
“Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.”
“Poets are not born to have, they are born to miss.”
Source: O Escritor
“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)
“Poets are not to blame for how things are.”
Source: The odyssey
“Poets are often those who build their own universe,”
Source: Muse
“Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.”
“Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.”
“Poets are Prisoners
8-29-2015
Poets are prisoners
Practitioners, commissioners &
conditioners of the spoken word
Caged by their own minds
Words are shackles”
“poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.”
“Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.”