What Is Poet Quotes

There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is the fierce light of the life force itself

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

A poet must sing for his own people.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.

I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

The words are the mirror of a poet. Through which you can see the reflection of himself.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.