Poet Quotes · Page 12

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

— Ogden Nash

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

— Oscar Wilde

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

— James Fenton

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

— Stanley Kunitz

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

— Anonymous

“Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.”

— Delano Johnson

“A poet is a pet to the master that suffers.”

— Harpreet Singh Nanda

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

— Joyce Carol Oates

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about…

— Fred Bodsworth

Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body…

— William Butler Yeats

What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

— Amanda Gorman

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has…

— Isaac D'Israeli

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked…

— Nora Roberts

I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My…

— George Herbert

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets…

— Thom Gunn

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

— Rita Dove

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a…

— Orison Swett Marden

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed…

— Murray Kempton

When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written…

— Kim Hyesoon

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with…

— Frank O'Hara

As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Writing a successful novel is a great challenge, and you have to be a bit of a poet, a bit of a…

— Anis Shivani

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do…

— Anonymous

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

— Beatrice Wood

“Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!”

— Saru Singhal

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

— Ann Demeulemeester

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

— Jules Renard

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

— Phyllis Bottome

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

— Gary Snyder

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

— Libba Bray

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

— Charles Baudelaire

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

— Lawrence Durrell

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

— Robert Frost

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

— William A. Henry III

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

— Howard Zinn

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

— Robert Lowell

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

— Horace

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

— Henry David Thoreau