Poet Quotes

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Music tells no truths.

Imagination is the air of mind.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

The sole equality on earth is death.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Kindness is wisdom.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.