Poet Quotes · Page 7

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

Poet's food is love and fame.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

— Carlos Drummond de Andrade

To be a poet you have to experiment.

— Matthea Harvey

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

— Jack Spicer

“Memory is a poet, not a historian.”

— Paul Geraldy

“Once a poet, always a poet.”

— Catherine McKenzie

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

— Victoria Chang

“Every poet puts a part of their soul in each of their poems. ”

— Jennifer Owen

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

— Luis Bunuel

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

— Paul Engle

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

— Sophie Swetchine

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

— Christian Wiman

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

— George Eliot

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

— Rollo May

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere…

— Horace

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier…

— Multatuli

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

— Lotte Lehmann

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through…

— John Updike

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”

— Anonymous

I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.

— Rupi Kaur

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good…

— Marilynne Robinson

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar,…

— Marion Milner

If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of…

— Pat Parker

The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough…

— Charles Bukowski

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of…

— Albert Murray

If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead…

— Robert Pinsky

Steve Allen was on Johnny Carson one time - I looked for it, but I couldn't find it - and he read…

— Neal Brennan

The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch…

— Tony Harrison

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

— Clarence Darrow

Don't send a poet to London.

— Heinrich Heine

A poet over 30 is pathetic

— H. L. Mencken

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

— Karl Shapiro

A poet must sing for his own people.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Honor is the greatest poet.

— Dante Alighieri

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

— Jack Kerouac

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

— Ayi Kwei Armah