Poet Quotes

My fave poet

— Anonymous

“Give a poet a pen”

— A. Jarrell Hayes

I'm a poet.

— Rajon Rondo

Poets tell many lies.

— Solon

God, eldest of Poets.

— William Watson

“I am an i poet.”

— E.E. Cummings

“I wait on my fix: I am a poetry junkie.”

— Charles Bukowski

God is the perfect poet.

— Robert Browning

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

— Ted Kooser

“dad now realize how you became poet”

— sakhiabbas

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

— Lucinda Williams

“Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.”

— Michele Brenton

For a poet, style is the only morality.

— Jennifer Stone

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

— Dennis Potter

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

— Jean Anouilh

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

— Claude Monet

“The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.”

— Paul Eluard

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

— Propertius

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

— Gerard De Nerval

A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words.

— Roger Verge

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

— Jay Michaelson

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could…

— Benjamin Franklin

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional…

— Ezra Pound

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead…

— Roger Zelazny

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible…

— Leonardo da Vinci

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is…

— Stevie Smith

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills…

— Joaquin Miller

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person,…

— James Laughlin

“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's…

— Gertrud Kolmar

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into…

— Robert Bringhurst

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes…

— Natasha Trethewey

I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week.…

— Pete Seeger

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all…

— Brent Weeks

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the…

— Horace

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

— Anonymous

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

— Patrick Rothfuss