Top 1200 Poet Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
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.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet.
The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.
In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.
My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better life.
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
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.
I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
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.
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
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 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.'
Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.
Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.
A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.
I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.
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.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food.
You don't have to be a poet, you don't have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.
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.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.