What Is Poet Quotes

No bad man can be a good poet.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

We need help, the poet reckoned.

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

Frequent friction when love becomes political.

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

Impulsive passion please set me free.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

We simply can’t feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.