Great Poet Quotes - Page 3

• One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

  Gerald Brenan

  Together, Helping, Harmony

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• Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible politics.

  Elliott Colla

  Horrible, Great Poetry, Utopian

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Character, Poetry, World

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• Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Destiny, Errors, Facts

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.126

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• Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

  L. Frank Baum

  Children, Doors, Perfect

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.2783, Delphi Classics

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• Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Eccentric, Sanity

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• ... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

  Erica Jong

  Voice, After Death, Great Poetry

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• [Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.

  William C. Bryant

  World, Poet, Lost

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• No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

  Claude Monet

  Poet, Painter

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

  Walt Whitman

  Numbers, People, Personality

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1480, Delphi Classics

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• For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Understanding, Next, Poet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.62

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• You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

  Felix Dennis

  Writing, Great Poetry, Garage

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• After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Truth, Poetic, Commonplace

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.2184, e-artnow

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• A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Feelings, Degrees

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.312, e-artnow

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• When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Done, Certain

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Thinking, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.149, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

  Heinrich Heine

  Nature, Flower, Mean

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.169

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• When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mean

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• I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Simple, Looks, Way

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.325, Delphi Classics

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• Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Beautiful, Gun, Boys

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.163, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

  Edward Abbey

  Play, Tyrants, Example

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Pain, Appreciate

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Oscar Wilde

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• To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

  Vanna Bonta

  Eye, Heaven, Poet

  "Sex in Space". History Channel's "The Universe" (TV series), Season 3, Episode 4, 2008.

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• As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to love Shakespeare. Hamlet is one of my faves. (Zeth) I’m not touching that one with tongs and a gas mask. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Self, Touching

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• The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.

  Sigmund Freud

  Attitude, Ideas, People

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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