Poet Quotes · Page 19

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

— Joyce Cary

“... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...”

— Dan Simmons

“Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.”

— Delano Johnson

“A poet is a pet to the master that suffers.”

— Harpreet Singh Nanda

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

— Beatrice Wood

“Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!”

— Saru Singhal

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

— Ann Demeulemeester

“Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life…

— César Vallejo

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

— Mason Cooley

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

— Leni Riefenstahl

With 'Peradam', the nature of the project was such that it was deeply immersed in spiritual concepts in India and is based…

— Anoushka Shankar

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of…

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet…

— Konrad Lorenz

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,…

— Anais Nin

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under…

— Randall Jarrell

Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…

— Howard Zinn

We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who…

— William H. Gass

“Let me meet Poet, too, but mainly Shadow. The guy who paints in the dark. Paints birds trapped on brick walls and…

— Cath Crowley

I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of…

— Conrad Aiken

The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real…

— Rebecca Solnit

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

— Jules Renard

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

— Ogden Nash

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

— Oscar Wilde

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

— James Fenton

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

— Stanley Kunitz

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

— Anonymous

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

— Del Close

“Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

— Marie Corelli

“Poet appointed dare not decline to walk among the bogus...”

— Basil Bunting

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

— Tom Stoppard

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

— Etheridge Knight

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

— Samuel Beckett

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

— Jean Ingelow

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

— Rene Char