#Poets Quotes

“We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936”

“The poet is always our contemporary.”

“Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?”

“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

“The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.”

“The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.”

“Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.”

“The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.”

“What poet would not grieve to seeHis brother write as well as he?But rather than they should excel,He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.”

“But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.”

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”