565 Quotations with Poet.
- 121. Socrates: I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but ...
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- 122. Jim Morrison: If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited w ...

- 123. Soren Kierkegaard: A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose l ...

- 124. Salvador Dali: The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a p ...

- 125. Jean Cocteau: The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

- 126. Freddie Mercury: People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet ...

- 127. John Burroughs: The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems t ...

- 128. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and need ...

- 129. E.C. Stedman: Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hard ...

- 130. Leonardo da Vinci: The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, an ...

- 131. C. S. Lewis: Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a ...

- 132. John Adams: I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics ...

- 133. Mario Cuomo: You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

- 134. Robert Heinlein: A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

- 135. Charles Baudelaire: Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an inst ...

- 136. Bill Bernbach: The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of ima ...

- 137. Oscar Wilde: At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is t ...

- 138. Janet Fitch: Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded ...

- 139. Viktor E. Frankl: I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought ...

- 140. Edward Hubbell Chaplin: Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near ...

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