Poet Quotes · Page 28

“The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his.”

— Robert Graves

“You came into my life like the rain to the parched desert!”

— Avijeet Das

“I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.”

— Lucille Clifton

“Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

— Sam Wanamaker

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

— Philip James Bailey

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

— Jean Cocteau

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

— H. Richard Niebuhr

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

— Samuel Barber

“Do not think about failure. Remember that even stars fall sometimes, and when they do people wish on them.”

— Maddie Godfrey

The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"-a moment that had been buried beneath…

— Anonymous

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be…

— Sigmund Freud

“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy”

— Virginia Woolf

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his…

— John Ciardi

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

— Salman Rushdie

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to…

— Edward Abbey

I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it…

— Cate Blanchett

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have…

— Plato

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor,…

— D. H. Lawrence

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters…

— Criss Jami

The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in…

— David Whyte

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had…

— Anais Nin

The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter…

— Donovan

I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse

— W. H. Auden

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“To a poet every curve of her was a well place word.”

— Atticus Poetry

“A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse;

— Robert Herrick

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

— Anonymous

Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.

— Woody Allen

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

— Patti Smith

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

— Plato

nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

— Helen Bevington

“...the Moon, the enemy of poets... ("Merchant's Two Sons")”

— Giambattista Basile

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

— Irving Bacheller