Poet Quotes

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that.

It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

A poet over 30 is pathetic

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.