“[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.” WorldLostWrittenPoetDiedGreat Poet Author:William C. Bryant
“Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).” MenNightLostDivinePoetBraveryBraveDeedsBrave ManChroniclesForteAgamemnon Author:Horace
“The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.” LostFunChurchReligiousLossPoetInfinityGreat Religious Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.” NeedsGivingLostMemoriesMy OwnLossRecordsJourneyPoetBecomingLosingSugarAuntGive And TakeMemory LossLost OnesLosing Her Author:Natasha Trethewey
“I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.” MadePoetryLiteratureLostLinesDealsFireFivePoetThousandForgivingRateSakeAbsurdSmokeRighteousObscurity Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in social work, schoolteachers who have lost faith in teaching and, for all I know, policemen who have lost faith in policing and poets who have lost faith in poetry. It's a condition of faith that it gets lost from time to time, or at least mislaid.” PeopleKnowsWorldFaithLostSocialTeachingConditionsPoetPoliticianWorkersSocial WorkPolicemenSocial WorkerLost Faith Book:A Taste for Death Source: A Taste for Death
“It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all - they're long lost dance partners. I don't divide the world up into Christians and other people - we are all human beings, brothers and sisters, and we embrace truth wherever we find it, whether that's in a lab, a field or a cathedral. Because sometimes you need a scientist and sometimes you need a poet.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsHumansLongSometimesChristianLostHuman BeingsFieldsPoetBrotherConflictScientistEmbracePartnersAbsurdTragicDividesBrothers And SistersPitsLabsCathedralsDance Partner Author:Rob Bell
“The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.” WayKindLittlesDifferentEndsSometimesBigsArtistLostCitiesFashionDangerousPoetSceneActiveArtisticCorporateActivistDifferent KindsEdgyBig Cities Author:Patti Smith
“The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.” FactsStoriesAgeUsedLostNationsRolesWrittenCenturyChangedPoetMountainRiversEntertainmentUsed To BeTribesKeepersTamedWhere We Came Author:Malik Yusef
“It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.” MenGivingCharacterJobsLostDoubtPoetContactDisciplined Life Author:Wallace Stevens
“John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.” WritingYearsMayLostPoetFameSixParadiseSpursMiltonRevising Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim