Poet Quotes · Page 75

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

— Francis Bacon

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to…

— Henry Reed

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the…

— Donovan

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different…

— Tony Kushner

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

— Suzy Kassem

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer…

— Adam Kirsch

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

— Edward Abbey

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as…

— Anonymous

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a…

— Mary Jo Salter

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures…

— Thomas Hardy

The real question should be: what makes a good political poem? The possible answers to that question are both obvious and yet…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences…

— Billy Collins

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me.…

— Nicole Kidman

“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable…

— Henry David Thoreau

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet.…

— Tracy K. Smith

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they…

— Roque Dalton

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

— Samuel Johnson

It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.

— Margery Sharp

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.

— Cynthia Ozick

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had…

— Christopher Dawson

“She asks me silly questions. Like how much do I love her? I smile and look at the sky for how do…

— Avijeet Das

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,'…

— Joseph Campbell

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I…

— John Dryden

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays…

— Jonathan Swift

“The poet must believe in the unknown as well as the known. This must become indistinguishable at times within the poem to…

— the mag man

[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

— Kate DiCamillo

Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy."…

— Catherine Fisher

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that…

— Socrates

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered…

— Susan Glaspell

Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.

— Pindar

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

— Tom Verlaine

I delivered dartboards to pubs. That wasn't when I knew I wanted to be a poet, but it was when I knew…

— Tim Key

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art…

— Barbara Tuchman

Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.

— Heinrich Heine

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to…

— T. S. Eliot

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only…

— Ivan Turgenev

The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

— Arthur Rimbaud

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography.…

— Mary Oliver

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

— Jay Asher

“A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could. This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.”

— Elizabeth Wein