Poet Quotes · Page 20

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

— William Wordsworth

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

— William C. Bryant

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

— James Russell Lowell

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

— Russell Simmons

Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

— Kwame Dawes

“I walk with a dual longing for life and for death.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

— John Keats

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political…

— Michael Kinsley

ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter…

— Nikki Giovanni

“Just enough angry, just enough indignant, just enough the-world-will-never-know-how-ridiculously-awesome-I-am. Just enough poet.”

— Rainbow Rowell

I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much.…

— Tony Kushner

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be…

— Billy Collins

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

— Paul Valery

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision…

— Rita Dove

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who…

— Adrienne Rich

She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than…

— Harry Chapin

The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and…

— George Steiner

Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice,…

— Henry Petroski

Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can…

— Peter Buttigieg

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a…

— John Arbuthnot

He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and…

— Robert Underwood Johnson

“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

— Heinrich Heine

And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.

— Ray Bradbury

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

— Helen Vendler

We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.

— Mick McCarthy

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

— Douglas Dunn

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

— Warren G. Bennis

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

— William Ellery Channing

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

— Robin Williams

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

“Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”

— Gustave Flaubert

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

— Kenneth Koch

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

— Elizabeth Janeway

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

— Ralph Ellison

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami