Poets

Famous quotes containing the word poets:

“Pain makes hens and poets cackle.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“nor till the poets among us can be
literalists of
the imagination—above
insolence and triviality and can present

for inspection, ‘imaginary gardens with real toads in them’,
shall we have”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

“Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)