Poet Quotes · Page 3

“The early word catches the poem.”

— Kevin Ansbro

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

— Moliere

“The pen is an extension of my anatomy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

— Sherman Alexie

“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Sudahkah kau minum puisimu hari ini?”

— Helvy Tiana Rosa

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

“Creation of a pregnant imagination.”

— Delano Johnson

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

— Rainn Wilson

“I'm in a dark place It's really pretty here”

— April Barnhill

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

— Robert Frost

“There is a madness in me that does not follow society.”

— Avijeet Das

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

— Randall Jarrell

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

— Walter Dean Myers

“Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”

— Frances Burney

The poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

— William Butler Yeats

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects…

— John Dryden

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

— Walter Scott

“A poet is intensely in love with live and passionately wants to express his or her experience with love and beauty.”

— Debasish Mridha

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what…

— Paul Muldoon

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think…

— W. H. Auden

“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la…

— Pierre Reverdy

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

— William Jones

We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young…

— Vincent Harding

For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on…

— James Fenton

The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many…

— Henry David Thoreau

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves…

— Ben Jonson

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the…

— Robert Frost

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of…

— Pablo Picasso

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly…

— Mary Karr

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write…

— Wislawa Szymborska

The poet is stepping out of the airplane.

— Jack Spicer

“I have a poet's weakness for symbols.”

— Tennessee Williams

The engineers of the future will be poets.

— Terence McKenna

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

— Wallace Stevens

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

— Bruce Lee

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

— William Wordsworth

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero