Top 1200 Poet Quotes & Sayings - Page 8
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.
I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
Noel Gallagher is a poet, and Liam is a town crier.
One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.
A small poet repeats himself like a clock.
Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.
I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.
I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
Even a poet cannot get everything right.
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.
The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.
As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.
language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.
The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.
You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.
Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
A poet must sing for his own people.
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
