P Quotes
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“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”
“Poets may sing as they will of the joys of mutual love confessed. But there is an hour more exquisite yet in man and woman's life: the hour of love still untold. The hour of trembling hopes and uncertainties; of ecstasies hidden away in the inmost sanctuary of the being; of dreams so much more beautiful than reality; of thoughts that no words can clothe and music that no instrument can render. Hour of doubt which is to certainty as the dawn is to the day, as mystery is to revelation: as much more enthralling, as much more exquisite.”
Source: The star dreamer, a romance
“Poets, most of whom live with their parents, like to think that mysterious people elude description, defying definition. They don't. Poets are just lazy.”
Source: Peril in the Old Country
“Poets much teach what they know if we are to continue being”
“Poets must be grounded in the education of the arts, drama, history, mysticism, esotericism, and philosophy. To gain knowledge and become learned of the above is easy - read. Poets should apply this knowledge to their work, so a poet will advance to the next level, to their next phase of their emotional, psychological and spiritual development, growing in years in a short space of time, in hours or months if he or she is an avid reader. This knowledge will birth work that is not meretricious but of noble parentage.”
Source: Feeding The Beasts
“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink on paper.”
“Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.”
Source: Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio
“Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.”
“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”
Source: The Isle of Blood
“Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.”
Source: Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts
“Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if oyu planned on fallin gin love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”
Source: The Notebook
“Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”
“Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.”
Source: Love and will
“Poets often push the boundaries of language, experimenting with words and forms. This experimentation can contribute to the evolution and enrichment of a language, expanding its expressive possibilities.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poets play with words to keep themselves sane”
“Poets & Poetry Should BE AUTHENTIC
Poets should actually care. The same goes for all musicians and artists.
Everyone.
Instead of being worried about "Popularity" or creating super popular "Fun Events" try being a real person and real poet and create what is necessary and what is needed for your communities and others right now in these dangerous times where your voice matters the most. There will be no tomorrow if you don't. They are censoring books, they are censoring your voice.
All the rest is pathetic bullshit.
All for $$ and fame. Be real.
Give A Shit.
And if you're neutral ? You're a big part of the problem.”
Source: NO KINGS: POEMS BY R.M. ENGELHARDT
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.”
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?”
Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets
“Poets see the truth in little things.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest transformation. We can only turn bad love into prose about bad love. So we are envious (and slightly distrustful) when poets talk to us of love.”
“Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.”
“Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to lay down my life for my Constitution, but I am not willing to take a life for it or any other reason because I think killing people is counterproductive.”
“Poets sing our human music for us.”
“Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.”
“Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.”
Source: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story
“Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.”
Source: A River Runs Through It
“Poets tell many lies.”
“Poets tend society’s gardens.
Nurturing seeds, plucking weeds.”
“Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This can be good. It forces the poet and the audience to think. But it can also be dangerous. It can turn into a branding device so that potential readers believe they know all they need to know once they know you've been associated with a certain group or position. It can freeze things in place. That's where thinking stops.”
“Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.”
“Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.”
“Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.”
“Poets! Towers of God
Made to resist the fury of the storms
Like cliffs beside the ocean
Or clouded, savage peaks!
Masters of lightning!
Breakwaters of eternity!
Hope, magic-voiced, foretells the day
When on the rock of harmony
The Siren traitorous shall die and pass away,
And there shall only be
The full, frank-billowed music of the sea.
Be hopeful still,
Though bestial elements yet turn
From Song with rancorous ill-will
And blinded races one another spurn!
Perversity debased
Among the high her rebel cry has raised.
The cannibal still lusts after the raw,
Knife-toothed and gory-faced.
Towers, your laughing banners now unfold.
Against all hatreds and all envious lies
Upraise the protest of the breeze, half-told,
And the proud quietness of sea and skies…”
“Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.”
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
“Poets want to stay home and write, wearing the same shoes and forgetting to eat.”
Source: A Book of Chrissyisms
“Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.”
Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
“Poets who write mostly about love, roses and moonlight, sunsets and snow, must lead a very quiet life. Seldom, I imagine, does their poetry get them into difficulties. Beauty and lyricism are really related to another world, to ivory towers, to your head in the clouds, feet floating off the earth. Unfortunately, having been born poor--and also colored--in Missouri, I was stuck in the mud from the beginning. Try as I might to float off into the clouds, poverty and Jim Crow would grab me by the heels, and right back on earth I would land.”
Source: Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings
“Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail.”
“Poets wish to profit or to please.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)
“Poets write the secret history of hearts.”
“Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.”
Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
“Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!”
Source: The New Land
“Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.”
“Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.”
“Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.”
Source: the man of letters in the modern world
“Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.”
Source: Country Wife and Other Plays
“Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.”
“Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.”
Source: The Country Wife
“Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry”
Source: The Complete Poems