Poet Quotes · Page 34

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

— Henry Ford

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

— Thomas Carlyle

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.

— June Jordan

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

— Helen Hayes

We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.

— Henry David Thoreau

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

— John Ciardi

You have no idea how poet you are until you meet love.

— Anonymous

As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.

— George Herbert

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave…

— Ovid

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to…

— Marvin Bell

They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their…

— William Cowper

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh.…

— Russell Simmons

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put…

— Wilfred Owen

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of…

— Oscar Wilde

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

— W. H. Auden

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in…

— Plato

When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general…

— Aubrey Beardsley

“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing…

— Henry Miller

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven…

— e. e. cummings

Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it…

— Randall Jarrell

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to…

— Simin Behbahani

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also…

— Plato

I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing…

— Sylvia Plath

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted…

— John Milton

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

— Paul Beatty

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

— Bernie Taupin

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

— Tom Hodgkinson

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

— Erica Jong

“Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.”

— César Vallejo

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

— John Quincy Adams

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

— Andre Gide

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

— Melvin B. Tolson

Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

— Caroline Norton

“Being a poet doesn't automatically emasculate you, Claudia.”

— Oliver Bowden

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

— Robert Hass

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

— Thornton Wilder

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“it's so easy to be a poet and so hard to be a man.”

— Charles Bukowski

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson