Poet Quotes · Page 165

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

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

— Victoria Chang

Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than…

— Anthony Hecht

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart…

— Allen Tate

“Persimpangan ini papan tandanya sudah kelam bukan samar-samar lagi Seperti semalam berurai titik hitam di permukaan mentari saat kubuka jendela tadi pagi…

— AD Rahman Ahmad

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero