89 quotes found
“Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,and you're hampered by not having any,the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny.No - not so that chance shall deci...”
“I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anyt...”
“And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother, and your grandfather and your grandmother, nd upon all your relations.'Is he cursing in rhyme?'...”
“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”
“The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of p...”
“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.”
“The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.”
“Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.”
“The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.”
“For poets the wages of sin are poverty.”
“The poet is rather one who inspires than one inspired.”
“What is poetry? The person who answers it, can't be a poet!”
“Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.”
“I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.”
“And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into the unknown, how much more willing must that man be whose whole life has been just such a dail...”
“He wouldn't perform without a recording now, she was certain, like a poet working in the oral tradition who had been contaminated by the advent of the recording device and so insisted that all impr...”
“It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.”
“A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann”
“Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.”
“The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.”
