(367 quotes found)
“I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.”
Harold Bloom
“If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.”
Fran Lebowitz
“HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I am a weathered poet who has experienced the elements of life. I have a bitter sweet past and i use that power to illuminate my path to success.”
Amir Riveroll
“The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.”
Stephen Spender
“Nothing whips my blood like verse.”
William Carlos Williams
“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”
Toba Beta
“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
“No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.”
William Temple Sr.
“If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.”
Charles Ives
