Poet Quotes · Page 91

“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page…

— J.D. Salinger

In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's…

— John Adams

“Poetry lets me pour out my various emotions even the suppressed ones we didn't know exist inside us' til the moment you…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly…

— Don DeLillo

This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films,…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor…

— Walt Whitman

I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was…

— Harvey Pekar

We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the…

— Richard P. Feynman

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which…

— William Faulkner

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and…

— Diane Wakoski

[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts…

— Samuel Johnson

A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry…

— Eric Ludy

I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very…

— Billy Collins

God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us…

— Khalil Gibran

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius…

— Aulus Gellius

Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes…

— Robert Creeley

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful;…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long…

— Ezra Taft Benson

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on…

— Alvin Lee

I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet…

— Eric Drooker

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is…

— Elizabeth Janeway

Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and…

— Bryan Fuller

Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/…

— Paulo Coelho

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth…

— Aristotle

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be?…

— Nhat Hanh

He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to…

— Halldór Laxness

We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation…

— Al Gore

Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first…

— Aberjhani

Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of…

— John Naughton

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as…

— James Russell Lowell

When my father got the letter from Satyajit Ray saying I could work with him, I had to give up 'Saat Hindustani.'…

— Tinnu Anand

I find it very hard to talk about my relationships, whether it's a girlfriend, sister or just a friend... I can't bring…

— Kunal Kapoor

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why…

— Oscar Wilde

I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had…

— James Fenton

More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention…

— Mel Gussow

I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if…

— Tracy K. Smith

“Songs of myself I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven…

— Walt Whitman

Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates…

— Tracy K. Smith

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible,…

— Aristotle

Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and…

— William C. Brown