Poets Quotes

“God, eldest of Poets.”

“All men are poets at heart.”

“I learnt life from the poets.”

“Valeant mendacia vatum.”

“Was ever poet so trusted before!”

“Disjecti membra poetæ.”

“Genus irritabile vatum.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“It was Homer who inspired the poet.”

“Tamen poetis mentiri licet.”

“He koude songes make and wel endite.”

“For a good poet's made, as well as born.”

“His virtues formed the magic of his song.”

“And spare the poet for his subject's sake.”

“Je chantais comme l'oiseau gémit.”

“Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.”

“Sithe of our language he was the lodesterre.”

“Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.”

“That mighty orb of song,
The divine Milton.”

“Non scribit, cujus carmina nemo legit.”