Poet Quotes · Page 30

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

“The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.”

— César Vallejo

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

— Hilde Bruch

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

— Robert Graves

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

— Jackie Kennedy

The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.

— Philip Sidney

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

— Vera Brittain

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What poet was it who wrote there's no pain worse than the pain of a broken heart? Sentimental shit. He should have…

— joe abercrombie

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

— Ambrose Bierce

“I promised her that I would never kiss and tell, but I have to tell someone about my dreams and fairytales. So…

— Delano Johnson

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are…

— Sandra Cisneros

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.

— Will Smith

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

— Umberto Eco

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

— Anthony Mackie

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements…

— Thomas M. Disch

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images.…

— Gaston Bachelard

I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People…

— Drake

I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd…

— Stephen Dunn

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done…

— Steve Jobs

“Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

— Jools Holland

Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets

— Anonymous

“If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you”

— Criss Jami

“For the way of the comets is the poet's way.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

— Ovid

“‎"It's not for me - religion. It seems like a redundancy for a poet.”

— May Swenson

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

— Margaret Atwood

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”

— Debasish Mridha

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

— Edward Dahlberg

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

— Khalil Gibran

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

— Anonymous