poets Quotes

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”

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

“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.”

“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

“But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?”