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

Ive read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. – John Barrymore

Category:
Poetry

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isnt poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. – J. Milton Hayes

Category:
Poetry

Without philosophy there can be no true poetry: without it pretty verses may, indeed, be made; but in order to be really a poet it is essential to be also, up to a certain point, a philosopher. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Category:
Poetry

The poet doesnt invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. – Albert Pike

Category:
Learning

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. – Meg Greenfield

Category:
Election Day

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. – Norman Vincent Peale

Category:
Happiness

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. – Dorothy Thompson

Category:
Peace