Poet Quotes · Page 37

The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

— William Wordsworth

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

— Luc Delahaye

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

— Robert Morgan

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

— Dorianne Laux

“The moon is my fear. The sun is my heart afire. The stars, my love songs.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.

— Eric Gamalinda

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

— Neil Gaiman

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry]…

— Ariel Gore

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to…

— David Antin

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg

I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to…

— Peter Heller

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

— Matthew Arnold

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

— David Biespiel

Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly…

— Devendra Banhart

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's…

— Pablo Picasso

... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to…

— May Sarton

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being…

— Abel Ferrara

There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s,…

— Richard F. Thomas

“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of…

— Joseph Campbell

Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as…

— Dan Simmons

What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears…

— Pablo Picasso

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the…

— Philip Sidney

The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

— Pattiann Rogers

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

— Francois Truffaut

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

— Antonio Machado

The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.

— Nick Flynn

The poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

— William Butler Yeats

I am only a fighter. In the form of a writer. In the form of a poet.

— Wale

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

— Christian Morgenstern

“Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary”

— Williams Robin Professor Keating

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

— Barbara Holland

“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.”

— N'Zuri Za Austin

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

— Langston Hughes

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“We loved our father for the poet he'd become.”

— Frederick Reiken

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

— Christopher Pearse Cranch