top of page
Quote_1.png

"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer
Poet, Poets
Standard 
 Customized
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quote_1.png
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
Man, Men, Act, Fate
Quote_1.png
"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
Perspective, Example, Man, Word
Quote_1.png
"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us."
Creativity, Idea, Progress, Growth, Metaphor
Quote_1.png
"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."
Family, Freedom, Man
Quote_1.png
"The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in."
Existence, Cosmos, Man
Quote_1.png
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
Life, Appreciation, Sense
Quote_1.png
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
Love, People, Bible, Enemies
Quote_1.png
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."
Christian,
Quote_1.png
"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are."
Man, Men
Quote_1.png
"The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it."
Structure, Order

Exlpore more Poet quotes

Quote_1.png

"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher
Poet, Poets, World
Quote_1.png

"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher
Poet, Poets, Pretty
Quote_1.png

"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."

David Antin, American Poet
Poet, Anxiety, Help, Memories, Poems
Quote_1.png

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

John Barton, Canadian Poet
Poet, Poets
Quote_1.png

"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

James Broughton, American Director
Poet, Poets
Quote_1.png

"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."

John Cleveland, English Poet
Poet, Eyes, Pen, Rain, Water
Quote_1.png

"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

Jean Cocteau, French Director
Poet, Roses
Quote_1.png

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

Jean Cocteau, French Director
Poet, Poets
Quote_1.png

"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet
Poet, Poets, Words
Quote_1.png

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet
Poet, Poets
bottom of page