Top 1200 Best Poet Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.

Rather than just saying, like, 'Your economy is the be all and end all,' I go back to my three roots that I've often said about this being best country for business, the best to raise a family in, and the best to grow old in with a sense of dignity and respect.

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.

My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better life.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

Even though you might believe you have the best product on the market or the best film in a really long time, not everyone will agree. The film may be the best thing since sliced bread, but you have to have great publicity to back it up.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.

A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Julia is one of the most loyal people who ever lived. Her best friend is her best friend from third grade, and her other best friends are her best friends from Northwestern. Once you're a pal, you're a pal for life with Jules. I'm not just flattering her because she's my wife.

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

Whatever that day has given, you have to make it the best of the best. That's one thing I've learned over my years. On days when you can't make everything what you want, do what you do best, make it as positive as possible, and go from there. Learn from your mistakes.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.