poets Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about poets.
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
- Walt Whitman
“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”
- Federico Fellini
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
- Zelda Fitzgerald
“Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.”
- Hannah Arendt
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
- Samuel Beckett
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
- Plato
“But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?”
- H. P. Lovecraft