Poet Quotes - Page 14

• The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hyde, Human Nature, Humans

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

  Moliere

  Writing, Men, Honorable Man

  "Le Misanthrope" by Moliere, act IV, sc. i, 1666.

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• Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

  Ouida

  Life, Echoes, World

  Ouida (1889). “Chandos. Randolph Gordon. Slander and sillery. Blue and yellow. Belles and blackcock. A line in the "Daily"”

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• Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

  B. F. Skinner

  Environmental, Doe, Behavior

  B. F. Skinner (2015). “Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition”, p.480, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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• Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

  Anais Nin

  Science, Scientist, Unison

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• The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Eulogy, Married, Satire

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.14

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• Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Modern, Trash

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.214

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• Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

  Charles Dickens

  Inspiration, Heart, Humility

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17059, Delphi Classics

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• Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Fame, Misers

  William Hazlitt, Edward George Earle Lytten Butwer-Lytton Lyton (1st baron), Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy”, p.293

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• We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Philosopher, Moral

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• for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

  Ouida

  Art, Sight, Poetry

  Ouida (2016). “Bimbi: Stories for Children”, p.55, Ouida

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• Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

  Ouida

  Death, Atheist, Oblivion

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.92, Ouida

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• Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Wife, Irises

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• Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

  Honore de Balzac

  Men

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• Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Yield, Order

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• There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, Kind, Former

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• God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

  Honore de Balzac

  Life, Drama, Men

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• The poet is always our contemporary.

  Virginia Woolf

  Contemporary

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932”, Chatto & Windus

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• How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

  Virginia Woolf

  Problem, Lays, Biographers

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4047, Delphi Classics

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• Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Two, Forever

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2078, Delphi Classics

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• We are born poets. we become orators.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Born, Orators

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• if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

  Pauline Kael

  Thinking, Trying, May

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

  Louise Bogan

  Reality, Poetry, Lovely

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

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• Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.

  Stevie Smith

  People, May, Fancy

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• Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Writing, Giving

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