Poet Quotes · Page 55

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

— F. Sionil Jose

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but…

— Gaston Bachelard

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining through. Elated, it fills my soul with…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

— John Anderson

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever…

— Mark Van Doren

“I spent all night weaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautiful when you wear my light.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds…

— Laura Goode

What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was…

— Paul Auster

... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse… it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom,…

— Jan Clausen

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around…

— Jonas Mekas

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one…

— Pablo Picasso

It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the…

— Clarence John Laughlin

My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and…

— Derek Walcott

All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend…

— Fred Rogers

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that…

— H. L. Mencken

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are…

— Bo Burnham

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

— Charles Baudelaire

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

— Jean Cocteau

Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.

— Louise Bogan

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

— Ambrose Bierce

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

— Eileen Myles

There's this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body.

— Borns

“When one falls his shadow always embraces him, and his empty place is already someone else's. Kushal Poddar, Poet”

— Kushal Poddar, Poet

Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the…

— Diane Ackerman

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

— Edith Sitwell

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set…

— Robert Frost

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

— Kenneth Branagh

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class…

— Edward Hirsch

“One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me- Search me not in my ashes, In my…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think…

— Antjie Krog

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

— Audre Lorde

A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps,…

— Ridgely Torrence

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

— Czeslaw Milosz

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an…

— Tom Waits

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot…

— Alex Haley