#poet

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#come #condition #forth #him #himself

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#enchanting #every #heroes #life #nobler

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. ↗

— James Martineau

#language #more #music #poetry #possible

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#any #cleverness #decadence #except #incapable

As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#been #culture #eliot #english #example

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

#direct #fortune #i #i am #indirect

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#dream #dreamer #feel #know #life

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#i #lot #narcissistic #poetry

Poetry lies its way to the truth. ↗

— John Ciardi

#poetry #truth #way

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#connection #didactic #even #exist #great