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Source: Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.”

Men Humans Poetry Passion Language Emotion Poet Profound Philosopher Poetry Is Fragrance Great Poet Human Thought Human Knowledge Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Facts Form Poetry Poet

Book:The Life and Letters of Faraday

Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday

“Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.”

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.”

Should Ends Poetry Emotion Poet Reader Instruments

Author:Philip Larkin

“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.”

Inspirational Believe Feelings Poetry Poet Reader Revelations Poetry Is Interiors Great Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?”

Feels Poetry Poet Rounds Bread Ruins Shed Rhyme Flattery Barren Myrtle

Author:George Crabbe

“I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.”

Ifs Knows Should Believe Enough Poetry Passion I Believe Break Honest Poet Masters Horror Lucky Grammar Travel Abroad Honest Woman

Author:Robert Graves

“It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.”

Believe Hard Poetry Poet

Book:Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection

Source: Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection

“Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.”

Thinking Ideas Light Poetry President Poet Carrie Johnson Frost Bulbs Light Bulb Eliot Valentino President Johnson

Author:Bob Dylan

“The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.”

People World Life Feelings Jobs Poetry Loss Poet Reports Sentimental Perversion

Author:Mark Van Doren

“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.”

“Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.”

Poetry Water Sleep Serious Poet Ocean Never Sleep Ocean Water

Author:Sally-Ann Roberts

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.”

Inspirational Children Enough Age Poetry Suffering Poet Humorous Parenting Teenager Sarcasm Poetry Is Sarcastic Adolescence Teenage Girl Teenage Years Being Sarcastic

Author:John Ciardi

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .”

“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”

Poetry Poet Invention Poetic Great Poetry

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

Lying Poetry Speak Poet Liars Speak The Truth

Author:Jean Cocteau

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”

Doe Poetry Poet Rose Bother Poetry Is Poetic Nurse Scent Gardener Nursery

Book:A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including

Source: A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including

“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”

Life Trying Children Art Poetry Cutting Poet Poetic Lunatic Knots

Author:Jean Cocteau

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

Ifs Writing Wells Life Is Poetry Poet Evidence Burning Poetry Is Poetic Ashes Great Poet Great Poetry Best Poetry Poetry By Poets Best Poet

Author:Leonard Cohen

“A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.”

Ifs World Poetry This World Poet Bird Wings Excellence Spread Realms War Of The Worlds Cherish Homeland Celestial

Author:Khalil Gibran

“It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art's sake, it is by that theory alone that their work has been, or can be, judged; -and rightly so if we remember that art embraces all life and all humanity, and sees in the temporary and fleeting doctrines of conservative or revolutionary only the human grandeur or passion that inspires them.”

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

Writing Poetry Order Poet Prose Racist Power Of Words Vocabulary Great Poet Homely Great Poetry Prose Poetry Best Poetry Vocabulary Words Poetry By Poets Prose And Poetry Best Poem Best Poet

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.”

Poetry Language Poet Ordinary Raised Poetry Is Delicate Reading Poetry Power Of Language Language And Power Poetry By Poets Poetry Reading Tough Skin

Author:Paul Engle

“But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

Life Romance Poetry Alive Society Poet Poetry Is Carpe Diem Staying Alive Carpe Romance Love Wedding Toast Wedding Speech Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Poetry By Poets Loneliness In Life What Is Poetry

Author:Robin Williams

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”

Writing Humans Poetry Race Society Poet Members Cute Human Race Poetry Is Carpe Diem Carpe Wedding Toast Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Poetry By Poets

Author:Robin Williams

“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.”

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

Life Wisdom Poetry Wise Poet Philosophical Great Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Plato

“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”

May Art Philosophy Used Poetry Forget History Poet Weather Forget The Past Barometer

Author:Lionel Trilling

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”

Men Poetry Five Poet Six Standing Lifetime Manage Lightning Standing Out Thunderstorm

Author:Randall Jarrell

“The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."”

Want Ends Poetry Enjoy Poet Messages Let Me

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.”

Self Poetry Differences Serious Poet Huge Aspect Ridiculous Ignored Seriousness Self Centered Contradicting Being Ignored

Author:Billy Collins

“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.”

Want Writing Poetry Lines Poet Letters Tired Prose

Book:The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers

Source: The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers

“Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.”

Men Mind Age Poetry Lines Poet Casts Verses Clay Defying

Author:Dave Beard

“It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.”

Soul Poetry Imagination Common Consciousness Poet Opening Poetic Intentionality

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”

Poetry Poet Rain Poetic Lightning Rainy Rainy Day Raining Day Inspirational Rain Happy Rain Rains Beauty Standing In The Rain

Author:James Dickey

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Poetry Taken Poet Poetry Is Emily Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets Greatest Poetry

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...”

“Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.”

Done Poetry Poet Painter

Book:Guesses at Truth

Source: Guesses at Truth

“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”

Mind Persons Poetry Certain Enjoy Poet Unsoundness

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.”

Men Poetry Poet Bed Visionaries Death Bed

Author:William Butler Yeats

“A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.”

People Persons Poetry Poet Naked

Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962

Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962

“The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.”

Kind Art Poetry Poet Productions Craftsman

Book:Plato, with an English translation

Source: Plato, with an English translation

“A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.”

Jobs Poetry Names Poet Fearless

Author:Jane Kenyon

“And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.”

Running Lasts Poetry Answers Poet Dust Mist Running Back

Book:Carl Sandburg

Source: Carl Sandburg

“The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...”

Facts Poetry Poet Not Interested Always Wrong

Author:William Faulkner

“The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.”

Firsts Jobs Poetry Poet Tables Bread

Author:Yvor Winters

“The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.”

Poetry Break Poet Habit Break Through

Book:St.-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo

Source: St.-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo

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