Quotes about Poets

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It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can — E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay. — Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall grasses,and even elep — Maya Angelou
Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world th — Jacob Nordby, Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to live your best life now
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace. — Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic
For a game, you don’t need a teacher. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store; — Jessie B. Rittenhouse
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming? — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded — William Knox
Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by w — Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to n — Jane Kenyon