poetic temperament Quotes

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.