Poet Quotes · Page 9

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

— Stanley Kunitz

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

— Gil Scott-Heron

Even a poet cannot get everything right.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The true poet dreams being awake.

— Charles Lamb

“Banksy is a poet, but so was hitler.”

— Atticus

We need help, the poet reckoned.

— Edward Dorn

The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.

— Theodore Roethke

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

— Tony Harrison

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

— Honore de Balzac

I don't fit into the age, race, or class of a bestselling poet.

— Rupi Kaur

“She's a good poet but a very neurotic woman." "Don't the two go together?”

— Michael Nava

“oh each poet’s a beautiful human girl who must die.”

— Alice Notley

“... a man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet.”

— John Barth

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for…

— Heinrich Heine

“when you're a poet you can dish out whatever's on your mind and you don't have to apologize for it”

— Shannon Lynette

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall…

— Derek Walcott

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

— Sharyn McCrumb

“There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost…

— Steve Maraboli

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

— Andre Soltner

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

— Honore de Balzac

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

— Khalil Gibran

Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much…

— Edward Hirsch

Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying,…

— Anonymous

Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was…

— Khaled Hosseini

I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed…

— Jack Spicer

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to…

— Francesca Lia Block

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone…

— Michelle Dockery

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who…

— Mark Forsyth

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

— Norman O. Brown

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

Oh, what company good poets are!

— Jose Marti

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

— Anonymous

The true poem is the poet's mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet is not a copier but a creator.

— RMKATTA

“Her silhouette never has regrets.”

— Delano Johnson

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

— Octavio Paz