Top 1200 Best Poet Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

I'm one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I'm out of control with it. I'm just gonna use every feature to make me outrageous - the best.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

I want to be eventually be the best wrestler out there, be the best grappler out there, along with being the best striker - be all of them at one time.

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

I don't feel competition at all. I just feel like I want to be the best. In everything that Michael (Jackson) did, he was the best. When he was dancing, when he was singing, he always wanted to be the best, and that's me... He's the guideline.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.

Part of making art is learning how you make it best. I'm not great at sitting down at a desk and writing for three hours. I write best verbally, talking through an idea with people, so I do my best work when I collaborate.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.

I've always done my best inside the Octagon, fought the best there is, and win or lose, I've done my best in my fights.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us so different. So will the best harmony come out of seeming discords, the best affection out of differences, the best life out of struggle, and the best work will be done when each does his own work, and lets every one else do and be what God made him for.

I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.

Ability-wise, when you see the best of Aaron Ramsey... at his best, is he good enough for Barcelona? Yes he is, at his best.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

I've always wanted to work with the best directors. Directors lead you to the best material and thus the best actors.

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.

I remind myself: I am the best. I have the best. And I deserve the best. This is one of my personal mantras that I tell myself every morning before auditions, character work, and performances.

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

I think of the Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati every day, and he is an inspiration in my musical creations.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet.

I have a best friend that has been in a relationship for five years, they just broke up and now she is dating one of his best friends and [it] ruined everything. I have dated best friends.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

I want to be the best. I don't know by what standard you measure being the best, but I want to go out there and perform and feel like I'm the best.

I think once I had my kids that kind of made it like, 'Look, you have to be the best you can be so they have a good example at home.' You want to give them the best food, what's best for them.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.