Poet Quotes · Page 16

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

— Antonio Machado

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

— Dana Gioia

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

— Clive Barker

Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

— Joseph Brodsky

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

— Robert Frost

“You’re speaking volumes, my friend, and tonight we’re doing short poems only.”

— André Aciman

“Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a…

— Alexander Pope

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

— Alexander Pope

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he…

— H. L. Mencken

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of…

— Paul Engle

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

— John Milton

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves…

— Horace

The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the…

— Humphry Davy

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the…

— Andre Breton

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating…

— Anonymous

I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like…

— William Gilmore Simms

I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because…

— Minnie Bruce Pratt

I write first drafts with only the good angel on my shoulder, the voice that approves of everything I write. This voice…

— Georgia Heard

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal…

— Oscar Wilde

My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God…

— Thomas Merton

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.

— William Cowper

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

— Anne Sexton

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

— Kehinde Wiley

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

— William Shenstone

“a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”

— Aristotle

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

— Billy Collins

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

— Ambrose Bierce

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

— John Krasinski

“I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet.”

— Theodore Roethke

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

— Jean Cocteau

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

— Orson Welles