Quotes


Frost is the most sophisticated of poets

• Peter Davison


Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil

• Henry Miller


Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you

• Virgil


At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets

• Oscar Wilde


As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum

• Jean Giraudoux


Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butchers the poets equal there

• Emile M. Cioran


All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well

• Marcus Aurelius


A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese,local, but prized elsewhere

• W. H. Auden


A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival

• Al Purdy



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