Poet Quotes · Page 18

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.

— Theresa Villiers

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

— Amanda Gorman

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

— Dick Gregory

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

— Gary Snyder

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”

— Philip Larkin

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

— Antonio Machado

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“I let my thoughts bare little feet ramble on the narrow cobblestone alleys, hoping they find their way out of the petite…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very…

— Mark Twain

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

— Robert Adamson

“But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?”

— Plato

“ I wish I were a poet. I've never confessed that to anyone, and I'm confessing it to you, because you've given…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God;…

— Marcus Aurelius

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience…

— Virginia Woolf

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting…

— Adam Kirsch

We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states…

— Octavio Paz

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it…

— William Faulkner

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

— Etheridge Knight

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

— Alice Oswald

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

— Countee Cullen

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

— William Butler Yeats

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

— Anonymous

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

— Gary D. Schmidt

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

— Anonymous

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

— Anthony Minghella

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

— Petrarch

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

— Seamus Heaney

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

— Anonymous

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

— George Farquhar

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

— Martin Heidegger

“In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.”

— R.M. Engelhardt