Poet Quotes · Page 103

When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or…

— Stephen Chbosky

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

— Robert Graves

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn…

— Henry David Thoreau

Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And…

— Catherine Fisher

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

— Mahatma Gandhi

See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me…

— Jack Spicer

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

— Augustus William Hare

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people…

— Gerald Brenan

I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by…

— Guy Maddin

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their…

— Homer

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one…

— Paul Theroux

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

— Henry Fielding

“it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be…

— Mary Karr

For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to…

— George W. Bush

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily…

— Andre Malraux

It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

— Gerald Stern

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

— Franz Grillparzer

Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly…

— Mervyn Peake

I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but…

— Maria Teresa Horta

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

— Horace

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around…

— Audre Lorde

My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a…

— Connie Wanek

Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up…

— Eva Brann

Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/…

— Paulo Coelho

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements…

— June Jordan

We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an…

— Steve Jobs

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would…

— Nikki Giovanni

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had…

— Christopher Dawson

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

— William Wordsworth

For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

— John Keble

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really…

— William Faulkner

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a…

— Rick Riordan

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

— Edith Sitwell

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

— Tom Verlaine

I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much.…

— Tony Kushner

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

— Petrarch

Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry,…

— Edward Hirsch

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

— Margaret Cavendish