Poet Quotes · Page 4

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

— Stanley Kunitz

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

— Gil Scott-Heron

Even a poet cannot get everything right.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We need help, the poet reckoned.

— Edward Dorn

“Banksy is a poet, but so was hitler.”

— Atticus

The true poet dreams being awake.

— Charles Lamb

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

— Norman O. Brown

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

“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

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

— Williams Robin Professor Keating

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

— Christian Morgenstern

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

— Wale

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Neil Gaiman

“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to…

— Anonymous

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

— Ai Weiwei

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call…

— Bob Dylan

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so…

— James Fenton

Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation… The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.…

— Molly Peacock

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual…

— Thomas Carlyle

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really…

— Julian Casablancas

“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck…

— Guy Davenport

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a…

— Rick Riordan

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism…

— Ben Lerner

Oh, what company good poets are!

— Jose Marti

The true poem is the poet's mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet is not a copier but a creator.

— RMKATTA

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

— Anonymous

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

— Octavio Paz

“Her silhouette never has regrets.”

— Delano Johnson

“You poet boys are dangerous.”

— Nicola Yoon

The poet is always our contemporary.

— Virginia Woolf