What Is Poet Quotes

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.

The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.

When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself. I really do. I read my own poems obsessively.

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.