Poet Quotes · Page 25

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

— Andrew Motion

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

— Horace

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

— William Butler Yeats

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep…

— Robert Frost

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

— Marianne Moore

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

A girl broke my heart & it bring out the poet in me!!

— Glen Rambharack

At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.

— Rodney Crowell

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

— Jewel

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

— Anonymous

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

— Katy Lederer

“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

— Henry Miller

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to…

— Robert Pinsky

Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly…

— Billy Collins

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as…

— George Henry Lewes

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like…

— Courtney Barnett

"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know…

— Harriet Monroe

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To…

— Alice Oswald

These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous…

— John Green

I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the…

— Billy Idol

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

— Alphonse Daudet

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

— Alan Bold

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Poetry magically excites an unknown mysterious emotion.”

— Debasish Mridha

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

— Matthew Arnold

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

— Wilfred Owen

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

— Charles Baudelaire

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

— Vicente Aleixandre

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

— Annie Dillard

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

— George Santayana

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

— Virginia Woolf

“She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

— Fernando Pessoa