Poet Quotes

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.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.