Poet Quotes · Page 35

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

— W. H. Auden

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build.”

— Nate Spears

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. ”

— Wallace Stevens

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

— Hartley Coleridge

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

— Anonymous

“Today is half of Yesterday and Tomorrow, Choose Today to make Tomorrow”

— Yando Wanii Nimbo

“Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets…

— Joseph Brodsky

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to…

— Robert Hass

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people…

— Gerald Brenan

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my…

— Muhammad Iqbal

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

— John Dryden

You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

— Martial

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

— Max Jacob

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around…

— Audre Lorde

Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak…

— Anonymous

Sport in itself has this power. If you are a poet or a singer, people gravitate. I may not be in the…

— Viv Richards

A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he…

— Ameen Rihani

I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced…

— Sandra Cisneros

One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the…

— Benazir Bhutto

Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an…

— Pope John Paul II

“Kiss her gypsy soul and love her for the wild rose she is.”

— Melody Lee

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

— Philip Levine

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

— Stanley Kunitz

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

— Janet Frame

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps

— George MacKay

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

— Sigmund Freud

“Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint.”

— NEil Gevisser

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

— Heinrich Heine

Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

— Horace

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

— T. S. Eliot

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

— James Dickey

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

— Henry David Thoreau

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

— Paul Claudel