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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.
I also want to sing the lyrics penned by poets like Srijato.
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
This day's nothingness
as if from spite
became a flame
and scorched the lips
of children and poets.
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.
One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.
We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
Good-bye to the lies of the poets.
[Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]
I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.
The poets think about war more than the social scientists.
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.
When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
