Poet Quotes · Page 10

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

— Sherman Alexie

The engineers of the future will be poets.

— Terence McKenna

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

— Wallace Stevens

The poet is stepping out of the airplane.

— Jack Spicer

“I have a poet's weakness for symbols.”

— Tennessee Williams

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

— Stanley Kunitz

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

— Phyllis Bottome

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

— Libba Bray

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

— Gary Snyder

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

— Joseph Campbell

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

— Jean Toomer

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

— Franz Grillparzer

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“One may never get to know how fast the time travels till the one gets in that position to race against the…

— Neel Preet

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

— Henry Miller

The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we…

— Sam Hamill

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

— Gerard De Nerval

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

— Jonas Mekas

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his…

— William Watson

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

— Lionel Trilling

It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all -…

— Rob Bell

There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many…

— Rajneesh

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the…

— Anonymous

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a…

— Erica Jong

I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records…

— Sylvia Plath

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone…

— Stephen Spender

The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

— Bruce Lee

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

— William Wordsworth

For a poet, style is the only morality.

— Jennifer Stone

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

— Anonymous

God is the perfect poet.

— Robert Browning

“I wait on my fix: I am a poetry junkie.”

— Charles Bukowski

“dad now realize how you became poet”

— sakhiabbas

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

— Ted Kooser