#poets

"Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one."

"Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again."

"You don’t know anything, but I know even less."

"A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep."

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."

"A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil."

"Hope without love is hopeless."

"The sunset produces flower clouds in a garden in the sky, and while there is still light you can see a heavenly representation of my love for you.The sunrise produces rays that light up the world like your eyes do when you're with me. They shimmer and I can see the stars in your eyes that gleam from your soul.-Jarod Kintz and Karen Quan"

"For a game, you don’t need a teacher."

"...if you do not even understand what words say,how can you expect to pass judgementon what words conceal?"

"Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels."

"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."

"Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge."

"I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened."

"The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths."

"In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry."

"A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired."

"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself."