Poet Quotes

What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

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.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.