Poet Quotes · Page 28

“A smile, like the poet's muse, Inspires passion in the lover's heart”

— Alex Z. Moores

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

— Mary Ruefle

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

— Stanley Kunitz

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

— Paul Klee

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

— Lloyd Alexander

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

— Leslie Stephen

I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally…

— Emanuel Lasker

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about…

— Fred Bodsworth

Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body…

— William Butler Yeats

Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.

— Michael Bruce

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a…

— Wallace Stevens

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

— Jose Bergamin

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision…

— Rita Dove

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

— Paul Valery

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however…

— Sinclair Lewis

“we want it visible to show when even the most visible joy will reveal itself only when we have transformed it within.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches…

— Joseph Brodsky

Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the…

— Jim Jarmusch

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the…

— Dorothy Fields

It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective…

— Kathleen Raine

With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found…

— Alice Meynell

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

— Philip Pullman

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Not the nature of man, Nor gods lordship, Separation from someone made me a Poet.

— Daniyalbutt

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

— H. L. Mencken

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..

— Ogden Nash

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

— Margaret Atwood

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

— Anonymous

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

— Khalil Gibran

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

— Edward Dahlberg

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”

— Debasish Mridha

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

— E. B. White

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

— Mary MacLane

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

— Ovid

“‎"It's not for me - religion. It seems like a redundancy for a poet.”

— May Swenson