Poet Quotes · Page 26

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

— Diane Glancy

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

— Nikki Giovanni

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

— John Drinkwater

“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”

— Khaled Hosseini

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

— August Wilson

“Don't breathe to survive; dance and feel alive.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

— Cyril Connolly

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and…

— Plato

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

— Abraham Lincoln

What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

— Amanda Gorman

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has…

— Isaac D'Israeli

I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My…

— George Herbert

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked…

— Nora Roberts

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through…

— Natasha Trethewey

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you…

— Anne Sexton

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so…

— Kierkegaard

“Advice to a Young Poet Don’t spend yourself in the small copper coins of complaint and accusation. Don’t answer those in authority,…

— Ondra Lysohorsky

My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine,…

— Salma Hayek

I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best…

— James Arthur

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the…

— Sigmund Freud

All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat,…

— Charles Ives

“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in…

— Kamand Kojouri

“There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried…

— Anne Carson

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

— J. D. McClatchy

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

— Herman Melville

“Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.”

— R.J. Craddock

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

— Eugene Delacroix

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

— Horace

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

— Richard Eberhart

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

— George Orwell

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

— Anne Sexton

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

— Plato

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

— Alfred de Musset

I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned in some way to be a poet.

— Tim Key

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

— Mahatma Gandhi