Poet Quotes

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

Oh, what company good poets are!

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.

No place is a place until it has found its poet.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.

With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.