Poet Quotes · Page 19

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

— Oliver Goldsmith

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

— Robert Frost

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

— Jules Verne

“We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected”

— James Wright

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

— Dorothy Parker

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

— Margaret Atwood

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

— George Santayana

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry.…

— Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You…

— Sandra Cisneros

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

— John Dos Passos

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

— Russell Simmons

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

— Patrick Ness

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

— Allison Joseph

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make…

— Rita Dove

Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of…

— Kelley Armstrong

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really…

— William Faulkner

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from…

— James Laughlin

As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief…

— Philip Larkin

When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres…

— Patti Smith

“Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the…

— Naeem Murr

The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard…

— Cid Corman

“I've always said that you know you're a poet when you type an em dash and you hit the delete button, and…

— Jericho Brown

“When I was a Poet Everything was Possible there wasn't Anything that wasn't Poetry”

— David Meltzer

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

— Christopher Morley

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.

— Sheri S. Tepper

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

— Maxine Kumin

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

— Misha Collins

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.

— Tony Harrison

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

— Criss Jami

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

— Anais Nin

I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

— Christina Aguilera

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

— Robert Frost

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

— Paul Fry

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

— Umberto Eco

...(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)...

— Vladimir Nabokov