(367 quotes found)
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Oscar Wilde
“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.”
William Carlos Williams
“God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us”
Peter Antenberg
“When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue”
Benjamin Franklin
“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman”
Wallace Stevens
“The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.”
Plato
“Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.”
