(367 quotes found)
“Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.”
Richard Shelton
“Neither men nor gods nor bookstalls have ever allowed poets to be mediocre.”
Horace
“I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.”
Isaac Rosenberg
“Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should makes us philosophers”
George Santayana
“Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.”
Richard Burton
“I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.”
August Kleinzahler
“Actors may (or may not) read poems well, but poets have unique rights to their work, and unique insights and interests to offer as we hear their idiom, pacing, tone and emphases,”
Andrew Motion
“If you had to put all your money on one living poet whose work will be read in a hundred years, Richard Wilbur would be a good bet.”
Christian Wiman
“This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.”
Albert Einstein
“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."”
Abraham Lincoln
