Quotes with poets

Quotes 61 till 69 of 69.

• To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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• To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of Uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.

  Works (1787)

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

  Richard Burton
  Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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• True poets are the guardians of the state.

  W. D. Roscommon
  English poet (1633 - 1685)
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• We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

  John Fowles
  English novelist (1926 - 2005)
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• We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

  Beeban Kidron
  British filmmaker (1961 - )
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• When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

  Ben Harper
  American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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• When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• disappointment
• uncertainty
• employment
• veneration
• guardians
• statesmen

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