All Quotes

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
‐‐ Samuel Beckett

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
‐‐ John Barton

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
‐‐ Carol Ann Duffy

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
‐‐ Craig Brown

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
‐‐ Helen Dunmore

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
‐‐ John Barton

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
‐‐ Allen Tate

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
‐‐ Edmund Waller

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
‐‐ Anne Stevenson

Poets take themselves very seriously.
‐‐ Grace Paley

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
‐‐ Edmund Waller

Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms.
‐‐ Anne Stevenson

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
‐‐ Plato

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
‐‐ Robert Penn Warren

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
‐‐ Brian Harris

Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'
‐‐ Susan Stewart

Point a light at me, and I'll start tap dancing.
‐‐ Heather Langenkamp

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.
‐‐ Luke Bracey

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
‐‐ Graham Greene

Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.
‐‐ Therese Fowler

'Point Omega' starts in an art gallery, where an unnamed man is watching, day after day, a 24-hour version of 'Psycho,' an installation that was created by the Scottish artist, Douglas Gordon. In it, the events and the minutiae of Hitchcock's film are painfully slowly reproduced; the watcher is obsessed with the detail revealed.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.
‐‐ Ben Parr

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
‐‐ Mark Foley

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it's just observing a simple truth.
‐‐ Devin Nunes

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
‐‐ Earl Wilson

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
‐‐ Paracelsus

Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
‐‐ Nancy Pickard

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
‐‐ Peter Latham

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.
‐‐ Chris Moneymaker

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
‐‐ James Altucher

Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.
‐‐ Charlie Ergen

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
‐‐ James Altucher

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

Poker is meant to be enjoyed.
‐‐ Chris Moneymaker

Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
‐‐ Sydney Schanberg

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
‐‐ Ricky Gervais

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.
‐‐ Hun Sen