Top 1200 Poet Quotes & Sayings - Page 13
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet.
Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.
I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.
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 power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.
My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
I think of the Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati every day, and he is an inspiration in my musical creations.
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
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.
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens,
Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
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.'
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
