Poet Quotes · Page 59

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

— Henry David Thoreau

The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

— Horace

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay…

— Tom Schulman

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words…

— James Schuyler

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

— Wilferd Peterson

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with…

— Abraham Maslow

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together…

— Rumi

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest…

— Bertrand Russell

I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written…

— Billy Collins

The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part…

— Maurice Hayes

When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand…

— Randall Jarrell

I've been trying to come to terms with what I am and what I do and what I believe in. And I…

— Gerald Stern

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or…

— Mary Russell Mitford

I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English…

— Langston Hughes

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

— William Cowper

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

— Luc Ferrari

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

— Stephen King

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs…

— David Hume

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a…

— Celeste Ng

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did…

— Alexandre Dumas

Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world…

— Richard Watson Gilder

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from…

— Tom Hayden

“the poet I saw once... but whose words have long been in my mind, windows of invincible candles... ”

— Nathalie Handal

He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he…

— Lloyd Alexander

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

— Henry David Thoreau

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of…

— Jacob Bronowski

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

— Jay Asher

“A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could. This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.”

— Elizabeth Wein

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

— Honore de Balzac

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the…

— Joseph Campbell

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

— Billy Collins

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

— Ho Chi Minh

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

— Norman MacCaig

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through…

— Gary Reilly

“If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be…

— Steve Maraboli

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the…

— Henry David Thoreau