“The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany”
Christian Wiman
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.”
Joyce Carol Oates
“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.”
John Muir
“The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.”
T.S. Eliot
