Symbolist Poet

Famous quotes containing the words symbolist and/or poet:

“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)