(359 quotes found)
“The Irish - Be they kings, or poets, or farmers, They're a people of great worth, They keep company with the angels, And bring a bit of heaven here to earth”
Irish Sayings
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?”
Richard Feynman
“Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other”
William Wycherley
“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal”
William James
“We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”
Jean Giraudoux
“The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.”
Bill Cosby
“Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany”
Christian Wiman
“Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.”
Paul Engle
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