Best poet & lasts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.”

Way Years Sometimes Helping Happens Lasts Passion Literature Particular Poet Great Passion

Author:Norman MacCaig

“When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.”

Men Heart Lasts Moving Dies Poet Tongue

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.”

Years Lasts Poet Concern Snow Last Year

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay; But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast.”

Ifs Matter Dream Hands Seems Lasts Turns Laughing Poet Fingers Hunger Mask

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“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.”

World May Long Together Lasts Dies Language Lines Failing Poet Bounds Tongue Envy Vain Verses Prophecy Boast

Author:Edmund Waller

“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.”

Should Firsts Philosophy Play Lasts Interesting Air Poet Demand Machines Philosophical Flying Absurd Mediums Instance Piano Poetry Is Requirements Tanks Sewing Forlorn Methodical

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.”

Firsts Lasts Next Poet Fool Critics Wit

Author:Alexander Pope

“And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly, think weakly, and see untruly (second order of poets); the men who feel strongly, think strongly, and see truly (first order of poets); and the men who, strong as human creatures can be, are yet submitted to influences stronger than they, and see in a sort untruly, because what they see is inconceivably above them. This last is the usual condition of prophetic inspiration.”

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Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.”

Knows Lasts Know How Poet Tradition Charm Copies Lacking Measure Of Success Exponents

Book:Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

“The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.”

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Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.”

World Littles Reality Lasts Poetry Emotion Poet Focused Lovely Bitter Resorts Finding Peace

Book:Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

“Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.”

Men Love Lasts Poet Every Man Fever

Author:Rosa Campbell Praed

“If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.”

Ifs World Years Two Character Home Lasts Found Waiting Cases Comedy Wife Poet Hundred Critics Queens Opera Merry Queen Elizabeth True Home Windsor Falstaff Verdi

Author:W. H. Auden

“The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.”

Knows Art Lasts Example Poet Art Is Available Serving

Author:Wendell Berry

“You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles' "Last Resort," we're done. I'm just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.”

Ifs Knows Matter Done Lasts Speak Stuff Minutes Rocks Poet Band Singing Asking Seven Brilliant Criticize Bob Resorts Dylan Eagles Rock Bands Zeppelins

Author:Charlie Sheen

“One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.”

Men Doe Said Age Lasts Grows Pleasure Poet Honor Fellows Making Money Worn Fellow Man Worn Out

Author:Thucydides

“I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.”

Long Stills Age Lasts Values Humanity Existence Wonder Economy Seeing Middle Poet Shadow Islands Materialism Tribes Immoral Middle Ages Criteria Inhuman Global Economy

Author:Tiziano Terzani

“We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

“I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses.”

Thinking Want I Can Lasts Poet Hug Recluse

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”

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Author:John Green

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