Poet Quotes · Page 31

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

— E. B. White

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

— Mary MacLane

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

— Mason Cooley

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

— Aleister Crowley

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

— Pablo Neruda

God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.

— Peter Altenberg

I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.

— Amber Tamblyn

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

— Plato

I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually.…

— Gord Downie

“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”

— Pablo Neruda

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic,…

— John Lennon

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me… If I must not, because of my sex,…

— Aphra Behn

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

— Thornton Wilder

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

— Peter Coyote

When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time…

— Karel Appel

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in…

— Vita Sackville-West

“That's a poet.' 'I thought you said it was a bo-at.' 'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?' 'Why, a…

— George MacDonald

I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point…

— Umberto Eco

Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I…

— Lawrence Joseph

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great…

— David Lynch

I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in…

— Joy Harjo

I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating…

— Ray Bradbury

“No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid.”

— Nate Spears

“How had his life become one a poet would be proud of?”

— Ellie Macdonald

“A poem shouldn't just give melody; it should give meaning.”

— Amit Kalantri

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

— Marlon Brando

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

— Anonymous

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

— Anne Carson

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

— Steven Seagal

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

— John Dryden

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

— Diane Ackerman

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

— May Sarton

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

— Barbara Tuchman

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned in some way to be a poet.

— Tim Key

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

— Alfred de Musset

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

— Anonymous