88 Quotations with Poets.
- 21. G. K. Chesterton: Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- 22. Dudley Moore: Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- 23. Socrates: I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but ...
- 24. Bill Bernbach: The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of ima ...
- 25. Oscar Wilde: At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is t ...
- 26. William Shakespeare: For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews,
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- 27. Bertrand Russell: Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for know ...
- 28. Robert Frost: Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water
- 29. Robert Frost: Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the ...
- 30. St. Thomas Aquinas: Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lo ...
- 31. Henry Miller: Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of ...
- 32. Plato: For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the s ...
- 33. John Dryden: He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is onl ...
- 34. Georg C. Lichtenberg: He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and ...
- 35. Francis Bacon: Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosop ...
- 36. Aristotle: Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
- 37. Leo C. Rosten: Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely no ...
- 38. B. K. Sandwell: I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a p ...
- 39. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and ...
- 40. Joseph Brodsky: In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking ...
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