Poet Quotes · Page 30

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

— Mattie Stepanek

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

— Virginia Woolf

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

— Charles Baudelaire

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

— Ambrose Bierce

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

— Aristophanes

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial…

— Alice Corbin Henderson

“The struggling poet and writer dreams again of standing on stage and reading his lines once again...”

— Avijeet Das

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem…

— Andrew Motion

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in…

— John F. Kennedy

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

— Mahmoud Darwish

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

— William Carlos Williams

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements…

— June Jordan

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

— Michael Faraday

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…

— Stevie Nicks

“What is Poetry (My Sonnet, My Rules) Any gargoyle can google the definition of a sonnet, Any robot can write and rhyme…

— Abhijit Naskar

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an…

— John Ruskin

At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as…

— Studs Terkel

Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put…

— Joseph Brodsky

The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing…

— John Dos Passos

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to…

— Olive Schreiner

You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

— Jeanette Winterson

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

— Anonymous

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

— Michael Stipe

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

— Charles Olson

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,

— Alister E. McGrath

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

— Shan Sa

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

— Philip James Bailey

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

— Aberjhani

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

— Jose Bergamin

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

— Aldous Huxley

“You’re speaking volumes, my friend, and tonight we’re doing short poems only.”

— André Aciman

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.

— William Cowper

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

— Clive Barker

I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

— Joseph Brodsky

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

— Robert Frost