Poet Quotes - Page 35

• Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to
  remember that law rules all.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Law, Simplicity

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his
  neighbour's heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Heart, Men, Secret

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 13,

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• Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

  Vanna Bonta

  Life, People, Worry

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• A poet's first contract is with truth.

  Vanna Bonta

  Firsts, Contracts

  "State of the Art". Book by Vanna Bonta, 2000.

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• The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

  Vanna Bonta

  Men, Bizarre, Categories

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• Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because science either walks or runs but art has wings to fly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Art, Science

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• But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have
  on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.

  J. D. Salinger

  Pain, Doe, Earth

  "Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's
  concerns or the poet's truthfulness.

  Seamus Heaney

  Fusion, Energy, Buoyancy

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.429, Macmillan

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• I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a highly developed moral sense and a bitter honesty, is rare at any time and especially in this time. We need him.

  Carolyn Kizer

  Honesty, Believe, Needs

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• To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.

  Leonardo Boff

  Artist, Reality, Environmental

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• How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Doe, Form, Stunning

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• Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Saint, Lows, Found

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.116, Harvard University Press

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• A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.

  George M. Church

  Beautiful, Flower, Color

  "Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back from the Dead?". Interview with Philip Bethge, Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. January 18, 2013.

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• Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

  Margaret Drabble

  Views, Novelists, Stories

  Interview with Lydia Perović, www.believermag.com.

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• It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.

  Clive James

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Art Beat, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.

  Clive James

  Thinking, Great Things, Better Now

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Art Beat, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.

  Clive James

  Writing, Important, Age

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Art Beat, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in.

  Dorianne Laux

  Struggle, Book, Discovery

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• We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Machines, Barbarians

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• I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sex, Real, War

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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• I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

  John Cusack

  Lying, Thinking, Historian

  "The Raven - John Cusack interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.

  John Cusack

  Party, Reflection, Simple

  "The Raven - John Cusack interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all - they're long lost dance partners. I don't divide the world up into Christians and other people - we are all human beings, brothers and sisters, and we embrace truth wherever we find it, whether that's in a lab, a field or a cathedral. Because sometimes you need a scientist and sometimes you need a poet.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Brother, Long

  Source: missionaryrenegade2013.blogspot.com

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• What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.

  Marc Maron

  Notebook, Writing, Sacrifice

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Senior, Teacher, Dead Poets Society

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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