Poet Quotes

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things

Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is- the poet is born, not made.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it burns not with your song.

The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.

Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many South Korean poets do] might not be a real, authentic poet.

Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.

The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act of loving, beauty, are first, fundamental truths.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

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

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

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

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

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.