Poet Quotes

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Don't send a poet to London.

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

One must love a poet on its own terms.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.