Poet Quotes · Page 15

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

— Ernest Hemingway

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

— Muriel Rukeyser

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

— J. D. Salinger

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

— Alice Walker

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

— Max Eastman

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

— Paul Engle

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to…

— Fernando Pessoa

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power…

— T.A. Barron

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet?…

— Ann Demeulemeester

I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's…

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Anonymous

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The…

— Patti Smith

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him…

— Bill Bryson

Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the…

— Jane Hirshfield

The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it…

— Cleanth Brooks

That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.…

— Jay Asher

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving…

— Joyce Carol Oates

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

— Ambrose Bierce

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

— Anne Sexton

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

— Don McLean

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

— Lester Cole

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

— T. S. Eliot

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

— Caitlin Thomas

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

“Dear Gris, if there's one thing I can't abide it's a bad poet.”

— Cat Hellisen

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

— Ben Jonson

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

— Novalis

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.”

— Laurence Overmire

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

— Bhagat Singh

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;

— William Shakespeare