Poet Quotes · Page 32

In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.

— Lewis Carroll

I give credit of my success to my parents. My father was a poet philosopher.

— Manoj Kumar

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

— Eugene Delacroix

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

— Richard Eberhart

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

— Horace

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why…

— Martin Heidegger

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired…

— Plato

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…

— Rita Dove

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is…

— Lytton Strachey

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

— John Cusack

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he…

— H. L. Mencken

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves…

— Horace

Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts;…

— Malik Yusef

“When the full-grown poet came, Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying,…

— Walt Whitman

And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the…

— Paul Elie

It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what…

— Lady Gregory

The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you…

— Nikki Giovanni

I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said…

— Scott Glenn

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

— Anne Sexton

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

— George Orwell

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

— Plato

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

— J. D. McClatchy

“Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.”

— R.J. Craddock

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

— Herman Melville

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.

— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

— Nikki Giovanni

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

— Diane Glancy

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

— August Wilson

“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”

— Khaled Hosseini

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

— John Drinkwater

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

— Cyril Connolly

“Don't breathe to survive; dance and feel alive.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi