Poet Quotes · Page 69

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should…

— Jane Austen

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional…

— Ezra Pound

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could…

— Benjamin Franklin

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

— Jay Michaelson

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

— Charles Bukowski

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no…

— Shana Alexander

I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I…

— Raegan Butcher

“A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are…

— Paul Auster

You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You…

— Peter Wolf

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild,…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness,…

— Clive Barker

I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet,…

— Rachel Corrie

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible…

— Leonardo da Vinci

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is…

— Stevie Smith

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead…

— Roger Zelazny

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that…

— Joan Larkin

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has…

— Seamus Heaney

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

— Remy de Gourmont

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and…

— Hilda Doolittle

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither…

— Victoria Chang

Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.

— No I.D

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even…

— Leonard Cohen

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like…

— Anthony Minghella

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

— Gerard Malanga

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

— William Jones

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what…

— Paul Muldoon

“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la…

— Pierre Reverdy

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think…

— W. H. Auden

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