“Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain” MenPainNamesGivenHeavenPleasureFireFatePoetFindingsLateIllFeel GoodToo LatePrometheus Author:Lord Byron
“The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.” HumansGivenMysteryDivineWillingPoetRemainsMissionsReverence Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.” IfsPersonsGivenMemoriesMy OwnPleasureChildhoodTalentFashionPoetProductsSourceHigherSorrowShadowRegardSacredDearPossessionTemptationAliensDelicateInclinationSpoilHigher Power Author:Hermann Hesse
“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.” ShouldArtDifferentEndsMatterFormSpiritPoetryGivenSituationAchieveSubjectsEventsPoetCircumstancesDegreesUnityMereStriveInstanceLandscapeStrifePenetrateIncidentsTopography Author:Walter Pater
“Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.” WarPoetryGivenLonelinessPoetSolitudeDestructionTownsGoodbyeShatteredCabins Author:Galway Kinnell
“Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.” HumansNextNamesGivenKnownMysteryDivineWillingPoetFameRemainsMissionsImmortalReverenceOrpheus Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.” KnowsMenFeelsMaySpiritualFormActorsGivenKnownPoetMaterialsFineGeniusMusicianUniqueOriginalsPainterAcknowledgeStrongestLinksSpiritual LifeInventorGreatest GiftsGreat PoetOratorsExponents Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.” IfsWantShouldRealLiteratureOpportunityGivenPoetHanging OutLions Author:Kirby Wright
“If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transfusion, given from the heart of the poet to the heart of the reader. Seek after poems that live inside you, poems that move through your veins.” IfsThinkingWantWritingHeartMovingGivenBloodPoetReaderVeinsBlood Transfusion Author:Ralph Fletcher
“Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country heading towards...I don't know if anyone's reading it, but poets are still flying around the country going from lectern to lectern.That circuitry has become very well-established.” IfsKnowsWellsStillsCountryMomentsReadingGivenPoetFlyingAirplaneHeadingsAmerican Life Author:Billy Collins
“It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.” GivenMilitaryPoetSpeechArmySoldierFreedom Of SpeechVeteranArmed ForcesVeterans DayInspirational MilitaryOur VeteransAmerican SoldierHonoring VeteransAmerican MilitaryHonoring Our VeteransVeterans Day Thank YouThank A VeteranUs MilitaryVeterans Day InspirationalVeterans Day PoemsHappy Veterans DayMilitary SoldierVeteran AppreciationArmed Forces DayFunny Veterans DayVeterans Day AppreciationAmerican VeteransUs VeteransMilitary MemorialBrave SoldiersMy SoldierVeteran MemorialMilitary VeteranVeterans And FreedomThanking Our VeteransVeterans BraveryJoining The ArmyServing In The MilitaryOld SoldiersMemorial Day SoldiersJoining The Military Author:Zell Miller
“I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.” ThinkingDifferentGivenFieldsPoetBackgrounds Author:Victoria Chang
“We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters.” KindPoliticalCertainGivenPerfectLeaderPoetBalanceBehaviorValuableNewspapersKneesContemplationNot PerfectJerkReactionariesPolitical LeadersDoubters Author:Sam Hamill
“I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.” HelpingPoliticalGivenDealsOpinionPoetPoetry Is Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.” LanguageGivenPoetEnglish Language Author:Jim Jarmusch