Poet Quotes · Page 105

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,…

— Anais Nin

[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a…

— William C. Bryant

Social media's currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs.…

— Stuart Franklin

Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a…

— Albert Einstein

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

— Robert Graves

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet…

— T. S. Eliot

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— E. O. Wilson

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

— Jean Cocteau

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live…

— Daniel H. Pink

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And…

— Denis Diderot

I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is…

— Alice Fulton

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

— Robert Frost

Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think,…

— Plutarch

Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever.…

— Donovan

Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market…

— Jeanette Winterson

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

— Stephen King

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

Poets sing our human music for us.

— Carol Ann Duffy

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to…

— Charles Bukowski

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography.…

— Mary Oliver

I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any…

— Marc Maron

If you're just starting off as an artist, steal as much inspiration from everything you like, as much as you can. Take…

— Yukimi Nagano

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The struggling poet and writer dreams again of standing on stage and reading his lines once again...”

— Avijeet Das

I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best…

— James Arthur

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…

— Stevie Nicks

A poet is a painter of the soul.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations,…

— Edith Wharton

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,…

— Horace

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

— Jay Asher

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

— George Santayana

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

— Stephen King

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for…

— Juan Felipe Herrera

Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects,…

— Richard Flanagan

“What broke your heart so bad That you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soul And…

— Sanhita Baruah

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

— John Keats

You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or…

— David Denby