P Quotes
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“Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.”
“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”
Source: Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
“Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“Poets are sitting in my kitchen.
Why do these poets lie?
Why do children get children and
Did you hear what it said?”
“Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.”
“Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.”
“Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Source: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
“Poets are the untamed creatures.”
“Poets are too precious to sacrifice carelessly,” he said, his long mouth downturned at the corners. “It had to be something other than Master Shakespeare himself.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.”
“Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.”
“Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose")”
Source: Fancies and Goodnights
“Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's what it'll get. One should never protest against anything unless it's going to have an effect. None of those marches do. One should either be silent or go straight to the top.”
“Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.”
“Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.”
“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years. And great fatigue followed by a good night's rest can to a certain extent help us to do so. For in order to make us descend into the most subterranean galleries of sleep, where no reflexion from overnight, no gleam of memory comes to light up the interior monologue—if the latter does not itself cease—fatigue followed by rest will so thoroughly turn over the soil and penetrate the bedrock of our bodies that we discover down there, where our muscles plunge and twist in their ramifications and breathe in new life, the garden where we played in our childhood. There is no need to travel in order to see it again; we must dig down inwardly to discover it. What once covered the earth is no longer above but beneath it; a mere excursion does not suffice for a visit to the dead city: excavation is necessary also. But we shall see how certain fugitive and fortuitous impressions carry us back even more effectively to the past, with a more delicate precision, with a more light-winged, more immaterial, more headlong, more unerring, more immortal flight, than these organic dislocations.”
Source: The Guermantes Way
“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way
“Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again.”
“Poets cut corners so often it's a wonder poetry isn't written on round paper.”
Source: Peril in the Old Country
“Poets deal in mysterious connections that tie people together, those difficult to catalog ethereal notions of love, beauty, joy, and broken hearts, or what and Richelle E. Goodrich, an American author and poet referred to as ‘the etched sorrows of despairing souls.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.”
“Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.”
Source: Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
“Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.”
“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
“Poets don't let poets put the pen down!”
“Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”
“Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.”
“Poets find truth by writing about what they love.”
“Poets frequently use their craft to comment on social and political issues, shedding light on injustices and advocating for change.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poets got existential despair. TV writers got a dental plan”
Source: Past Perfect
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
Source: Alarms and Discursions
“Poets have long warned against frivolous love vs principled love. Living a passion-driven life can corrode an otherwise healthy marriage.
Lamentations, pg 6”
Source: Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family
“Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.”
“Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.”
“poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-
of turning silence
into eloquence.”
“Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.”
“Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound.”
“Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.”
“Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.”
“Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.”
“Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.”
“Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.”
Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller ...
“Poets make the best topographers.”
Source: The Making of the English Landscape
“Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.”
Source: The Courage to Create