Best poet & stars Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.”

Song Stars Silence Poet Fairs Profound Loud Unspoken Unbroken

Book:Songs of the Sun-lands

Source: Songs of the Sun-lands

“Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.”

Men Book Stars Liberty Saws Sea Poet Fit Edges Thinker

Author:Van Morrison

“The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.”

World Looks Stars Perfect Growing Sky Poet Duty Woods Forests Glorious Delightful Sage License Glowing Rapture Gems Astronomers Firmament Delightful Things

Book:The Masquerade: And Other Poems

Source: The Masquerade: And Other Poems

“We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.”

Knows Men Heart Song Dies Stars Poet Proud Tales Ships Good Man Swear Lilies Pilgrimage Beauty Of Life Marvellous Isle Lineage

Author:James Elroy Flecker

“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.”

Men Poetry Stars Poet Climbs Ladders Violin

Author:Edmond de Goncourt

“If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]”

Ifs Stars Poet Strikes Exalted

Author:Horace

“It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Doe Heaven Stars Secret Influence Poet Vain Height Daring Authorship Natal

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.”

World Poetry Stars Poet Mercy Tongue Rats Greedy

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.”

Writing Humans Use Language Stars Black Prayer Results Poet Command Vulnerable Sentiments Efficient Elegance Urgent Use Of Language

Author:Kwame Dawes

“The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.”

Universe Stars Poet Add Atoms Astronomers Catalogues

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.”

Giving Seems Poetry Dies Passion Stars Sex Poet Goes On Mood Intense Odd Burned Verses

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.”

Giving Looks Long Enough Able Stars Understanding Tree Rocks Fields Poet Bird Guides Tiny Butterfly Mammals Best Gift Wildflowers Reptiles Amphibians

Author:Marge Piercy

“What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.”

Want Persons Artist Stars Realizing Simple Poet Directors Creator Producers Artistic

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.”

Ifs Knows Writing Wells Stars Born Poet Trade Thee Spite Verses

Book:The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes

Source: The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes

“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.”

Knows Feels Littles Doe Past Artist Night Stars Mystery Poet Mere Patterns Harm Desert Gas Atoms Marvelous

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.”

Thinking Firsts Children Young Stars Poet Spring Overhead Snowfall

Author:Sylvia Plath

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