Poet Quotes · Page 46

“we want it visible to show when even the most visible joy will reveal itself only when we have transformed it within.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

— Jules Verne

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

— Orson Welles

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

— Marlon Brando

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

— Virginia Woolf

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending…

— Cate Marvin

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

— Paul Claudel

Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware…

— Ron Padgett

There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your…

— Diane Wakoski

“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.”

— Suzy Kassem

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand…

— Jean Cocteau

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable…

— W. H. Auden

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an…

— Robert E. Sherwood

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

— William Cowper

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

— William Cowper

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

— Antonio Machado

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother, and your…

— William Butler Yeats

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be…

— Greg Bear

I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come…

— Eavan Boland

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and…

— Anonymous

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet…

— Billy Bragg

The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a…

— Charles D'Ambrosio