Poet Quotes · Page 8

My task as poet is close to me.

— Tanikella Bharani

“Envy won't make you a better poet.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“A poet is for poetry Not for you and me.”

— Rahman Mostafiz

A poet's first contract is with truth.

— Vanna Bonta

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

— Ada Lovelace

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

— Bjork

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

— Rachel Held Evans

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

— Aristide Maillol

“Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!”

— Avijeet Das

“All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.”

— Martin Heidegger

I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

— Isaac Rosenberg

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

— William Congreve

“They are so beautiful: your words" she told me. And I said "No, you are!”

— Avijeet Das

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this…

— Rose Macaulay

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when…

— Matthew Zapruder

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself…

— David Bowie

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

— Octavio Paz

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour…

— Isaac D'Israeli

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

— Alexander Pope

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when…

— Søren Kierkegaard

When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes…

— T. S. Eliot

“T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the…

— Pablo Neruda

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one…

— Honore de Balzac

Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not…

— Miller Williams

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov,…

— Billy Collins

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this…

— W. H. Auden

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

— Edith Sitwell

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

— Paul Verlaine

I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.

— Julia Holter

Let the poet always walk thus

— Anonymous

There are poets and there are grownups.

— Jean Cocteau

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

— Wallace Stevens

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

— Dylan Thomas

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

— Jean Cocteau