Poet Quotes · Page 15

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

— Jack Prelutsky

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

— Plato

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

— Eugene Field

A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...”

— John Geddes

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

— Miguel Serrano

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

— Adrienne Rich

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you,…

— Stanley Kunitz

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse,…

— Lee Strasberg

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

— Rita Dove

“You'll find magic everywhere, even in dark, dusty corners, if you stop searching with your limited human eyes and instead feel with…

— Melody Lee

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

— Stephen King

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed…

— Flora Thompson

God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been…

— Rajneesh

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare…

— Anita Diament

“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium…

— Dylan Thomas

Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked…

— Christian Wiman

Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master…

— Ravi Zacharias

You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the…

— Elliott Colla

“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

— Peter Meinke

“Poet appointed dare not decline to walk among the bogus...”

— Basil Bunting

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

— Marie Corelli

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

— Del Close

“Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

— Tom Stoppard

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

— Etheridge Knight

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

— Samuel Beckett

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

— Elizabeth Bishop

“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

— Rene Char

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

— Jean Ingelow

“We aren't so called black people. We are black people. Be black and proud!”

— Dr.Nana Adu-Boafo Jnr

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

— George Murray

Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge