Poet Quotes · Page 6

The true poem is the poet's mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet is not a copier but a creator.

— RMKATTA

“Her silhouette never has regrets.”

— Delano Johnson

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

— Octavio Paz

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

— Norman O. Brown

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

Oh, what company good poets are!

— Jose Marti

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

— Gil Scott-Heron

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

— Kenneth Koch

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

— Ovid

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.

— William Carlos Williams

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

— Franz Grillparzer

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.

— Wallace Stevens

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write…

— Nicholson Baker

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

— Muriel Rukeyser

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain…

— Rembrandt

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

— Helen Vendler

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

— David Allan Coe

“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.”

— Cath Crowley

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq…

— Hassan Blasim

I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great…

— John Taylor Gatto

Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or…

— Jane Hirshfield

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered…

— Edward Hirsch

Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon;…

— Robert Burns

In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital…

— Edward Hirsch

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ...…

— Eboo Patel

Even a poet cannot get everything right.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The true poet dreams being awake.

— Charles Lamb

We need help, the poet reckoned.

— Edward Dorn

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

— Atticus

“Birds are the eyes of Heaven.”

— Suzy Kassem

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

— William Butler Yeats

“And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet.”

— Christopher Marlowe

“I am part of all that I have met.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson