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| Efter kontakt med kärleken blir alla poeter. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Var alltid poet, så även i prosa. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| Let the poet always walk thus | Alfred Victor Vigny (1797-1863) |
| Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot | Edmund Waller (1606-1687) |
| Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. | Eli Khamarov |
| The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep. | Jacques Maritain (1882-) |
| We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. | Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) |
| Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance. | Louis Untermeyer (1885-) |
| Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love | Philip James Bailey (1816-1902) |
| It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos. | R. H. Coase |
| A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times | Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) |
| He is the poet of solitude. | Richard L. Coe |
| To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men. | Richard Wilbur (1921-) |
| The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem." | Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) |
| The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them | Rod Sterling (1924-1975) |
| Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"-a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world. | Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) |
| To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet | Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) |
| What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. | John Ciardi (1916-1986) |
| The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other | William Wycherley (1640-1716) |
| When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| While pensive poets painful vigils keep - Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep | Alexander Pope (1688-1744) |
| We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. | Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) |
| The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal | William James (1842-1910) |
| The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem." | Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) |
| The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times | Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) |
| Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love | Philip James Bailey (1816-1902) |
| Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| Always be a poet, even in prose. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? | Richard Feynman (1918-1988) |
| Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. | Eli Khamarov |
| A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. | Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) |
| Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. | Alfred De Musset (1810-1857) |
| Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. | Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) |
| Poets are born, not made | American Proverb |
| A good poet's made as well as born. | Ben Jonson (1572-1637) |
| As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot | Edmund Waller (1606-1687) |
| Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. | Federico Fellini (1920-1993) |
| The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience; which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one | Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) |
| The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages. | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. | James Thurber (1894-1961) |
| Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men. | Richard Wilbur (1921-) |
| Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them | Rod Sterling (1924-1975) |
| A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |