Poet Quotes · Page 166

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

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way…

— Paul Auster

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would…

— Allen Tate

Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in…

— Gaston Bachelard

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

— Thornton Wilder

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted…

— John Milton

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

— Virginia Woolf

And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars.…

— Henry Abbey

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full…

— John Dufresne

other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.

— No I.D

Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their…

— George Washington

Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont…

— Michael Jackson

“ Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.”

— Martin Espada

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.

— Roy Fuller

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away…

— Kenneth Koch

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next,…

— John Dryden

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate…

— Daniel Gillies

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

— William Congreve

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ...

— John Ashbery

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don't say it doesn't make sense then tell me you feel your spine curve and chill humps rise all over your skin.…

— Melody Lee

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

— Dylan Thomas

[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore…

— John Milton

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

— Vanna Bonta