Poet Quotes · Page 26

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

— Robert Browning

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

— Alexander Pope

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

— Bob Dylan

“I confine time to the sentences... A poet I am, I paint dreams, I seize dreams!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.

— Janet Fitch

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

— Dan Simmons

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

— Katherine Applegate

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and…

— Oscar Wilde

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

— Thomas Hardy

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

— Robert Graves

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with…

— Karl Shapiro

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

— William Faulkner

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they…

— Jacques Maritain

I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

— Wendy Cope

[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the…

— Jay Michaelson

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding…

— Elliott Colla

The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he…

— Mary Oliver

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of…

— Dan Simmons

a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who…

— Cynthia Ozick

Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if…

— Wallace Stevens

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the…

— John Ashbery

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

— William Hazlitt

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

— Edmond de Goncourt

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

— Victor Hugo

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

— Anne Stevenson

.. but all of a sudden they’re poets, right, like that’s all it takes — being in love.

— David Sedaris

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

— Abraham Cowley

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

— Basil Bunting

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.

— Robert Breault

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

— Joseph Brodsky

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

— Orson F. Whitney

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

— Peter Kreeft

It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

— Gerald Stern

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

— Gregory Corso

Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.

— Rosa Campbell Praed