Poet Quotes

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

Poetry is the loveliest art. It has a wretched way of revealing our own character when we think we are judging the poets.

The poet in you is still remembered.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’