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Poets Quotes

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

Isaac Rosenberg

Great Simple Look Way Things Poets

There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

Culture Real Years Agreement Poets

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

H. P. Lovecraft

Dreams False Poets Tales Travellers

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

Revolution White Politicians Poets

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

Reading Poets Both Scientists

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

Place London Sense Poets About Sang

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Poetry Reading Worth Way Dead Poets

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Comedy Sketch Cafe Poets Did Troupe

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I Am Me Little Professor Made Poets

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

Literature Like Poets

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Words Tough Go Through Poets Very

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Intelligence Humanity Sense Poets

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

Face Complaining Radio Hear Poets

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Think Way Outlaw Poets I Think

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Race Same Heroes Poets Conceive

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

First Greatest Poets He Put

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Delmore Schwartz

Look Like Rotten Poets Them Wives

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Moderation Saints Just Poets Nor

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

Imagination People Me Alive Poets

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry Cheese Silent Been Poets

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

Nicholson Baker

Good Short Write Who Poets Many

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

Work Fame Single Whose Poets Many

There are very few great poets in the world.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Great World Poets Few Very

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Federico Fellini

Money Poetry Poets Everywhere Lack

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