Poet Quotes

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Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.'

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

A poet must learn to wage war.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

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.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.