Poets Quotes

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

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

Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

You have committed a crime against us and against the Revolution, Mayakovsky. All your words thunder with a voice like Niagara Falls. Mayakovsky, you have betrayed us.

The right of the inventor to his discovery, the right of the poet to his inspiration, depends upon those principles of eternal justice, which God has implanted in the heart of man.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

If a poet would influence politics he must join a party, and then he is lost as a poet: goodbye to his free spirit and his open mind.

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

The day Obama got into office, rap was less important because Obama gave kids an alternative. But will rap ever go away? No. There will always be a need for poets.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

I am acquainted with many Negro poets, contractors, labor leaders, journalists, social workers, physicians, novelists ... It does not strike me as strange that Negroes should be doing all sorts of work. But white people continue to be amazed when they hear of Negroes having such vocations, They regard successful Negroes as freaks, along with trained seals, and infant chess prodigies. .

Wretched Castile, yesterday the ruler wrapped in rags and scorning all it does not know.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom—he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

Gallant heroes lived before Agamemnon, not a few; but on all alike, unwept and unknown, eternal night lies heavy because they lack a sacred poet.