Top 1200 Writers And Poets Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

In English, you can find writers with a wonderful sense of humor, like Oscar Wilde. But in the French language, this is very special, and de Sade is one of the very brave writers with a sense of humor. But most people don't understand that. When they read de Sade, they take it seriously. They say, "Oh, what an awful man!" He is really a very unknown writer.

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

You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something.

Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.

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

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

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

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

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

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

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

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

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

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

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

I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

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

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language.

I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are those just working out their obsessions. I think I'm a combination. I think, at least for these books, I'm going with fear. I've always been interested in fear. Fear is something I've dealt with in life, and I think it's the main motivating factor of everything, almost. From sex to politics.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

If you're spending a lot of time in the writers' room and then you're also acting, you have your foot in both of those doors. I'd always say to the writers, "You can say whatever you want about your boss in front of me. I'm not going to think about it as my girlfriend." You've got to be able to trash your boss, in any job.

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

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

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

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

It's exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that. That's an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

With all due respect to the other writers, I don't want to disparage any other writers; I don't want to have to invent a bigger villain than Deathstroke so Deathstroke can seem heroic fighting this bigger villain. I'd rather just have Deathstroke be who is, and he's kind of a bastard.

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

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

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

Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.