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5714 Poet Quotes

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Great His Language Limits
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Even More MoreAndMore Poetry
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An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

Author Censorship Effective Indifference
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Cult Future Genre Harmony
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Always Bourgeois Content Manifest
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Aims Attitude Defined Future
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Abrupt Divides Each Geography
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

Across Cultural Descent Distant
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

Almost Always Barbarian Condemnation
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Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

Abroad Also Born Carried
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
About Any Begin Books
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Another Being Deeply Even
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Been Century Favor Freedom
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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

Almost Always Art Artist
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

Around Corner Distinctive Footsteps
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

Astonishment Been Centuries Did
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

After Because Fact Hundred
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Cannot Her Include Leads
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

City First Garden God
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Cheap Cure Endures Hope
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Despise Enough Few People
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Eternal Always Past Come
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Curiosity Devotion Does Less
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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Cheap Cure Endure Hope
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Changes Constant Nature Scene
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Contempt Envy Grant High
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

Nice Always Life Faith
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A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

Pain Love Mighty Miss
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Books True Both Large
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Thing Most Hope All
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Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”
Lead Best Come Books
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Own Age Come Known
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Banish business, banish sorrow. To the gods belongs tomorrow.

Belongs Banish Sorrow Business
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Ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books.

Books Few Friends Garden
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Good Write Kind Book
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For men led by the Colour, and the Shape, Like Zeuxes Birds fly to the painted Grape; Some things do through our Judgment pass As through a Multiplying Glass. And sometimes, if the Object be too far, We take a Falling Meteor for a Star.

Star Far Shape Falling
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Room Prison World Native
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

Hour Last Wish Past
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Betray Rich Night Small
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Kings Fewer Earth Been
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Clouds Display Fear Wish
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Once Bald Past Slip
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Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Creature Morals Drink Nature
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Over Death Poets Triumphs
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Field Crowd Foolish Mirrors
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Rival Bible Fears Hopes
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
Bloom Fruit Gone Our
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Desire Give Nothing Reason
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
Desire Point Same Vision
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Mind Never Satisfied
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