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quotes by topic Poet

" Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. "

Teeth , Poet , Bites

" A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. "

May , Poet

" I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets. "

Poet

" Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys. "

H. Richard Niebuhr

Spiritual , Journey , Poet

" For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least? "

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fear , Poet

" The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail. But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. "

Vladimir Nabokov

Poet

" I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet. "

Vladimir Nabokov

Poet