Top 1200 Poet Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping.
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
Better to have the poet's heart than brain,
Feeling than song.
A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.
The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.
Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live in a distraction.
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
