Poet Quotes · Page 15

The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo,…

— Richard Burton

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

— Zell Miller

n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was…

— William Dean Howells

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should…

— Rita Dove

Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to…

— Charles Harper Webb

“Under the starry sky, I count every dim space.”

— Ritu Negi

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

— Peter Meinke

Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest…

— Leonard Bernstein

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's

— Wilfred Owen

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are…

— John Muir

Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . .…

— Bertrand Russell

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

— Henry David Thoreau

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or…

— Virginia Woolf

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And…

— Alexander Pope

A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing…

— Joan Aiken

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who…

— Adrienne Rich

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that…

— Kevin Young

In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the…

— Sergei Prokofiev

One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

“Creation of a pregnant imagination.”

— Delano Johnson

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

— Warren G. Bennis

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

— Marina Tsvetaeva