Top 1200 Best Poet Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Every time he steps on the floor, LeBron has to establish that he's the best. Every year is an opportunity for him to raise his level to the best of the best.

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

Dave Mackay was one of the best I've ever seen. Jimmy Greaves was the greatest goal scorer, and George Best was just the best. The greatest.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

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

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.

Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.

Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.

The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

What really excited me at the end was the challenge of being the best I can be and prolonging my best level and playing against the best players in the world. But now that I don't have the opportunity to play against the best players in the world when it counts, in front of fans, it doesn't excite me as much.

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.