Poet Quotes

The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

Poet's food is love and fame.

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.