Poets Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith, (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert Graves, (1895-1985) British poet, novelist
God’s most candid critics are those of his children whom he has made poets.
Sir Walter Raleigh, (1861-1922) British academic
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet
Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?
Virginia Woolf , (1882-1941) British novelist
As fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet’s mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
John Keble, (1792-1866) English clergyman, poet
I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
Lord Byron , (1788-1824) English poet
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry.
John Donne, (1572-1631) English metaphysical poet
Dr Donne’s verses are like the peace of God: they pass all understanding.
King James I of England (1566-1625)
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato, (427-347 BC) Greek philosopher
No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834) English poet
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.
Robert Graves , (1895-1985) British poet, novelist
He lied with such a fervour of intention There was no doubt he earned his laureate pension.
Lord Byron , (1788-1824) English poet
A taste for drawing-rooms has spoiled more poets than ever did a taste for gutters.
Thomas Beer , (1889-1940) American essayist, novelist
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet, playwright
If you want to write poetry you must earn a living some other way.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) English poet
The whole of my returns from the writing trade not amounting to seven score pounds.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled to run, though not to soar.
Lord Macaulay, (1800-1859) English historian of Dryden
Cibber! write all thy Verses upon Glasses, The only way to save “em from our Arses.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
Careless thinking carefully versified.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American poet, editor of Alexander Pope
In poetry, no less than in life, he is “a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English poet, critic of Shelley
He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author of Wordsworth
Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life.
Frances Cornford (1886-1960) British poet of Rupert Brooke
