Poet Quotes · Page 11

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

— Deborah Levy

A small poet repeats himself like a clock.

— Austin O'Malley

Was ever poet so trusted before?

— Samuel Johnson

“to the poet a pearl is a tear of the sea”

— Jules Verne

A good poet's made as well as born.

— Ben Jonson

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

— David Carradine

“In darkness, some flowers blossom!”

— Shirley Houston

No bad man can be a good poet.

— Boris Pasternak

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

— Jeanette Winterson

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

— Stanley Kunitz

“they say of the poet and the madmn we all have a little”

— Luis J. Rodriguez

Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.

— Werner Herzog

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

— E. M. Forster

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

— Alexander Pope

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be…

— Greg Bear

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as…

— Anne Stevenson

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

— Camille Paglia

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

— Tom Schulman

“(1)BEING A POET is like opening a car door & exposing yourself. (2)BEING A GOOD POET is like opening the door &…

— Chocolate Waters

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten…

— Fran Lebowitz

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With…

— Jack Kornfield

Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so…

— George Eliot

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in…

— Lawrence Joseph

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry.…

— Langston Hughes

When I grow bored, pick up the pen and begin thinking. Thinking and writing because it's chasing a dream, hoping to be…

— Raghib Clitso

“Me - the poet - lost for words.”

— Jessica Brockmole

Poets sing our human music for us.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

— T. S. Eliot

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

— John Berryman

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

— Moliere

Poets wish to profit or to please.

— Horace

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

— Moliere

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

— Seamus Heaney