Top 1200 Best Poet Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

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

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

As a writer, you're always trying to say the best thing. You're always thinking about what's the best thing to say, and what's the hardest way to say it, and what's the best line? Sometimes the best line is the simplest line. Sometimes the best line is the line that evokes more feeling than actual wordsmithing.

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

I feel like the best of the best in any sport not only plays well, but they get everyone around them to play really well, and the best they can.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

Every tournament that I go to, I'll prepare my absolute best to play my best golf. And if my best golf is a Top-10, then so be it.

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

I'm still the best bantamweight in the world in my mind, yes. If I had any doubt that I was the best in the world then I shouldn't be competing. If you don't think you're going to be the best, what's the point?

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Being able to compete against the best, having success against the best, and to be included with the best - that's something I really relished whenever I got on the court.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That's the best education I could have, the best experiences I could have.

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.