Home / Topics / Poet Quotes

Poet Quotes

Browse 4287 quotes about Poet.

Poet Quotes

“Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.”

Ifs Littles Beautiful Poet Mere Clouds Liars Makers Humankind Wiser Elegant Visionaries Madmen Perplexity Falsity Unknowing

Book:Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

Source: Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

“The fellow is either a madman or a poet.”

Poet Fellows Madmen

Author:Horace

“He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.”

Thinking Art Soul Doors Poet Fit Madness Senses Muse Beaten Sober Hollow Madmen Knocking

Author:Plato

“I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one”

Men Sometimes Artist Three Poet Madmen Three In One

Author:Jessica Lange