(367 quotes found)
“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 poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real”
Simone Weil
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”
Federico Fellini
“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal”
William James
“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb”
W. H. Auden
“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully”
Aristotle
“What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose”
Plato
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
