Top 1200 Dead Poets Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.

Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

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

If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.

We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men.

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

I also want to sing the lyrics penned by poets like Srijato.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.

Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.

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

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about.

Dia de Los Muertos is a holiday that pays tribute to the dead and also celebrates life. So I thought, what better of an idea to bring it in with PETA and let people know how we can respect the living and the dead. Going vegetarian could be an incredible option for people if they would just educate themselves.

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.