Poet Quotes · Page 4

“And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet.”

— Christopher Marlowe

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

— Werner Herzog

He is the poet of solitude.

— Richard L Coe

Poetry makes nothing happen.

— Anonymous

“To be a true poet is to become God.”

— Dan Simmons

“Enjoy a life of poverty. Become a poet.”

— Jarod Kintz

To a poet nothing can be useless

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

— Plato

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

— Robert Frost

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

— Paul Fry

...(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)...

— Vladimir Nabokov

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

— Umberto Eco

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

— William Wordsworth

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal

“Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”

— Gustave Flaubert

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

— Kenneth Koch

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the…

— Philip Sidney

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but…

— Philip Larkin

“I was a happy young woman and I just happened to write poetry. I wasn’t trying to get anywhere, I was where…

— Ntozake Shange

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

— W. H. Auden

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some…

— Abraham Cowley

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

— Hafez

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight…

— Frank O'Hara

“The pain broke through the skin, dismantled her pores, and ate away at everything that was once strong. She was laid bare…

— J. Autherine

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less…

— Maya Angelou

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who…

— Eugenio Montale

And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some…

— Anna Akhmatova

There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies.…

— Laurel Burch

As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you…

— Renzo Piano

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a…

— Maria Edgeworth

If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.…

— Anthony Burgess

Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poet, writer and anti-royalist”

— Alan Hardy

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

— James Russell Lowell

“It is always a poet's winter.”

— Kate Braverman

This is truth the poet sings . . .

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Title deeds generally outlast poems.

— Mason Cooley

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

— Horace

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins