Poet Quotes

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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips th

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Poetry Beauty Poet

Many writers must have realized human fiction is making much

Many writers must have realized human fiction is making much more out of the sense that our reality unfailingly lacks.

Reality Truth Quote Fiction Writers Poet

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

Poetry Art Love Confusion Writing Uncertainty Poet Lyrics Musician Rhyme Songs Songwriting

Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleO

Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll hear their feetBeating out and beating out a -You thinkIt's a happy beat?Listen to it closely:Ain't you heardsomething underneathlike a -What did I say?Sure,I'm happy!Take it away!Dream BoogieHey, pop!Re-bop!Mop!Y-e-a-h!

Langston Hughes

Poetry Dream Poet Boogie Harlem

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry Beauty Perfection Literature Perfect Poet Literature Quotes Imperfection Balance Imperfect Juxtaposition Dejan Stojanovic

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer se

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet.

Funny Poet Virginia Woolf

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that hav

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Poetry Words Poet

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things ar

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosopher Sacred Poet Divine Holy

Johnson, who defines as 'metrical composition', defines as '

Johnson, who defines as 'metrical composition', defines as 'An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure'. We can gauge how far we have traveled by comparing this with the Shorter Oxford Dictionary which, after a definition very like Johnson's, feels obligated to add 'A writer in verse (or sometimes in elevated prose) distinguished by imaginative power, insight, sensibility, and faculty of expression'.

My strength is as the strength of ten.
Because my heart is p

My strength is as the strength of ten. Because my heart is pure.

Alfred Tennyson

Focus Strength British Heart Purity Poet

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Life Art Author Adventure Poet

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved

Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

Love British Loss Poet

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.