88 Quotations with Poets.
- 1. Johnson: Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the l ...
- 2. Henry David Thoreau: Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder ...
- 3. Jean Anouilh: Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a h ...
- 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson: There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we r ...
- 5. Horace: Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
- 6. Michel de Montaigne: We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliate ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irr ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...
- 18. G.K. Chesterton: The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- 19. T.S. Eliot: Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- 20. Alfred North Whitehead: Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for ...
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