#poet

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#ever #francis #greatest #hardly #mentioned

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#between #cross #dylan #dylan thomas #earlier

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#books #guess #i #living #make

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they? ↗

— Robert Adamson

#best #certainly #confused #days #encouraging

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#boring #established #i #know #lot

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#great #love #poets #tell #them

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

In greatness, life and death merge. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #greatness #life #literature #literature-quotes

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#original #original sin #poet #sin #thinker

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience