Logo
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their

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. – Socrates

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? – W.H. Auden

Category:
Poetry

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Poetry

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

Category:
Poetry

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. – Archie Shepp

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one. – Lord Halifax

Category:
Anger

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth. – Brian Eno

Category:
Music

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. – Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992

Category:
Black History

I actually dont think that Im that much smarter than anybody else. Its just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think thats wisdom. – Benjamin Carson

Category:
Wisdom