Poet Quotes · Page 19

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

— Bhagat Singh

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

— Mason Cooley

“Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful”

— Laura Goode

“Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.”

— Bernard Jan

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

— Gary Snyder

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

— Joseph Joubert

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

— Nell Freudenberger

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic,…

— John Lennon

“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”

— Pablo Neruda

I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually.…

— Gord Downie

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

— Plato

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

— John Cusack

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is…

— Lytton Strachey

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…

— Rita Dove

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired…

— Plato

“BE Lost On a painted sky Where the clouds are hung For the poet's eye You may find him If you may…

— Neil Diamond

Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of…

— Ada Leverson

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was…

— Laurence Olivier

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets…

— Julian Barnes

“The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the…

— Roman Payne

I never have restricted myself into a frame of a particular technique. My techniques are determined simultaneously along with the subjects of…

— Guity Novin

“It’s no game. Believe me, she is a woman of far greater complexity than you—or anyone—realize. The secrets inside her mind are…

— Fumiko Enchi

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

— Tommy Chong

“So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay.”

— John Green

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

— Leonard Cohen

“I’m going to become a beat poet and a lesbian!”

— Benjamin R. Smith

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

— Alice Walker

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

— J. D. Salinger

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

— Ernest Hemingway

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

— Muriel Rukeyser

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

— Max Eastman

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

— Paul Engle

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

— Anne Sexton

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

— Don McLean