Poet Quotes · Page 27

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

— Robert Graves

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

— Richard J. Daley

The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.

— Jeanette Winterson

It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.

— May Sarton

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

— Ezra Pound

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

— Stan Brakhage

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

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a…

— Joseph Brodsky

Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

— Anna Journey

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

— Sylvia Plath

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all…

— George Eliot

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?"…

— Ouida

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

— Cornel West

Every revolutionary poet or lyricist has been criticised for something. If you come up with something new, there will always be people…

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as…

— Alan Moore

Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap…

— Stevie Smith

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest,…

— Wislawa Szymborska

“If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarised to men, shall be ready to put on,…

— William Wordsworth

“Seeing the God statement Suppose the statement Blessed Are the pure in heart, for they shall see God were placed like a…

— Pattiann Rogers

The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate…

— Yehudi Menuhin

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry;…

— Jonas Mekas

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic…

— Denise Levertov

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.

— John Cleveland

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

— Horace

“Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.”

— Carol Hovsepian

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— Richard M Knittle Jr

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

— William Hazlitt

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

— Anonymous

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

— Robert Lowell

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

— Horace

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

— Henry David Thoreau

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

— Wallace Stevens

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

— Walt Whitman

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

— Miguel de Cervantes