Poet Quotes · Page 3

I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.

— Julia Holter

Let the poet always walk thus

— Anonymous

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

— Rachel Held Evans

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

— Bjork

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

— Ada Lovelace

“A poet is for poetry Not for you and me.”

— Rahman Mostafiz

A poet's first contract is with truth.

— Vanna Bonta

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

— Muriel Rukeyser

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

“Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.”

— Bernard Jan

“Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful”

— Laura Goode

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

— Joseph Joubert

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

— E. M. Forster

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does…

— Jean-Claude Izzo

Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some…

— Joseph Addison

“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world…

— Salman Rushdie

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

— Rod McKuen

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some…

— Charles Ives

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one…

— Jay-Z

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are…

— Criss Jami

I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is…

— Alice Fulton

Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly…

— Mervyn Peake

I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and…

— Terry Bozzio

No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether…

— Marcus Aurelius

What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men…

— Henry David Thoreau

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

— Marie Howe

As we to the brutes, poets are to us.

— George Meredith

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poet, teach us to love our dying.”

— Robert Kroestch

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

— Jean Cocteau

Always be a poet, even in prose.

— Charles Baudelaire

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

— Thomas Campbell