Top 1200 Best Poet Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
I don't like it when people say I was the best ever. It's silly. I am not the best ever. I was the best of my time.
Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together.
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.
We have to put the best team to offer a secure alternative to Singaporeans - let me stress, the best team, not the best individuals... The party must comprise members who work with others and not march to their own drumbeat.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
I am a greedy poet. I keep munching life all the time. Sweet, sour and bitter moments.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.
For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens,
Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.
If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.
What is America? Best brains in the world migrate to the U.S. If there are best brains, they will produce best results.
I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person's comedy, but they know what is best for them. Luckily, I come from both a writing background - with 'Workaholics' - and I also act in what I've written.
Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym.
I was fighting the best, am the best, will be the best.
When Sinatra said, 'For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer I've ever heard,' it changed my career completely. He was my best friend, and I was his best friend... but I was never part of the Rat Pack.
I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.
I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.
The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
In my 35 years in business I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers.
If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's get Jimmy Brown; the best basketball player, let's get Bill Russell. If we want the guy who can do the best job for the United States - let's get Donald Trump.
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.