Poet Quotes · Page 7

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

— Anonymous

“I was born with my eyes turned inward.”

— David Joseph Cribbin

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

— Plato

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

— Patrick Rothfuss

We must listen to poets.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Dance is the ritual of immortality.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

All a poet can do today is warn.

— Wilfred Owen

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

Great poets get their inspiration from nature

— Russyb

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

— E. O. Wilson

poets are born knowing the language of angels

— Madeleine L'Engle

“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”

— T.S Eliot

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Remember, a smile is more contagious than the coronavirus.”

— Bill Madden

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a…

— Lorde

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out…

— James Arthur

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet…

— Sylvia Plath

Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like ‘many are gone, and those that live are bad’.12”

— Aristophanes

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

— Walter Scott

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

— Wyndham Lewis

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old…

— Marianne Moore

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs…

— Barbara Holland

“A life lived outside of one's giftedness is a complete and utter travesty. It deprives the world of the beauty we each…

— Shirley Houston

So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not…

— Harry Harlow

“Publishing a book, Watching its ways Force me to look At a screen for days "Be still, be still", My heart screams…

— Eric Overby

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people…

— Diane Wakoski

Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake…

— Judith Thurman

I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And…

— Mark Leyner

It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life… [ellipsis…

— Louise Bogan

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

— Horace

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

— Ian Fleming

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.

— Sylvia Plath

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

— T. S. Eliot

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

— Jorge Luis Borges

All men are poets at heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Another breath, left to translate”

— Susan Voth