Poet Quotes · Page 17

The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

— William Blake

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

— George Eliot

The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.

— Theodore Roethke

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

— Tony Harrison

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

— Honore de Balzac

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

“She's a good poet but a very neurotic woman." "Don't the two go together?”

— Michael Nava

“When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart”

— Subhan Zein

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

— Anne Sexton

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

— Howard Nemerov

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

— Henry Moore

“Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.”

— Federico García Lorca

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search…

— Yang Wanli

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression,…

— Robert Schumann

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates…

— John Drinkwater

“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it…

— César Vallejo

“I breathe in... The sights and smells Of this city I’ve come to know... So well I gaze... Across the turquoise ocean…

— Sanober Khan

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all…

— Benjamin Clementine

I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and,…

— Jessye Norman

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass…

— Ovid

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and…

— John Lennon

I don't fit into the age, race, or class of a bestselling poet.

— Rupi Kaur

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

— Stanley Kunitz

Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.

— Werner Herzog

“they say of the poet and the madmn we all have a little”

— Luis J. Rodriguez

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

— E. M. Forster

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

— Moliere

“God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.”

— Martin Luther

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

— Seamus Heaney

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

— Don Blanding

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

— Wendy Cope

“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Science confirms faith in ways only a poet could understand.”

— Jonah Gibson

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

— Jeanette Winterson

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

— Robert Wilson Lynd