Poet Quotes · Page 23

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

— Janet Frame

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

— Sigmund Freud

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps

— George MacKay

“Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint.”

— NEil Gevisser

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni

Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

— Caroline Norton

“Being a poet doesn't automatically emasculate you, Claudia.”

— Oliver Bowden

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

— Robert Hass

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

— Albert Einstein

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

— James Broughton

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think…

— Anne Sexton

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the post said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the…

— Woody Allen

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched…

— Arthur Golden

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young…

— Sylvia Plath

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language…

— Robert Graves

One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars,…

— Marge Piercy

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely…

— Oscar Wilde

For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And…

— John Keats

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble,…

— David Hume

A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never…

— Walter Martin

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my…

— Bill Cosby

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing…

— Mary Ruefle

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

— Thornton Wilder

“it's so easy to be a poet and so hard to be a man.”

— Charles Bukowski

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

— W. H. Auden

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build.”

— Nate Spears

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. ”

— Wallace Stevens

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

— Anonymous

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

— Hartley Coleridge

“Today is half of Yesterday and Tomorrow, Choose Today to make Tomorrow”

— Yando Wanii Nimbo

“Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

— Tom Hodgkinson

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

— Erica Jong

“Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.”

— César Vallejo