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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
The poet should touch our heart by showing his own
Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
The words are the mirror of a poet. Through which you can see the reflection of himself.
May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.
The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.
The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.
Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.
I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.
The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.
The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.
As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words.
