Poet Quotes · Page 32

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

— Caitlin Thomas

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

— Lester Cole

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Tommy Chong

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

— Leonard Cohen

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

— John Green

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

— Benjamin R. Smith

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not…

— Oscar Wilde

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

— Jane Kenyon

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is…

— Matsuo Basho

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

— Michael Pena

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that…

— Umberto Eco

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those…

— Anonymous

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and…

— Sam Pressman

“O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is…

— Suzy Kassem

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run…

— Oscar Wilde

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for…

— William Congreve

When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration…

— Samuel Johnson

We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an…

— Steve Jobs

“I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

“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

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

— W. H. Auden

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

— Nell Freudenberger

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

— Ben Jonson

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

— Novalis

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Dear Gris, if there's one thing I can't abide it's a bad poet.”

— Cat Hellisen

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

— Federico Garcia Lorca