Poet Quotes · Page 33

“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.”

— Laurence Overmire

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

— Plato

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;

— William Shakespeare

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

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“now i can safely claim the pages within these walls are more than my allies; they are my own”

— Hanna Abi Akl

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

— Robert Frost

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

— Philip Levine

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

— George Herbert

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others…

— Anonymous

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to…

— Henry Reed

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

— Francis Bacon

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times…

— Walt Whitman

It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do…

— Salman Rushdie

Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet…

— Nicholas Sparks

Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of…

— Denise Levertov

I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and…

— James Arthur

Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in…

— Herbert Read

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a…

— Walker Percy

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

— Joyce Cary

“... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...”

— Dan Simmons

“Under the starry sky, I count every dim space.”

— Ritu Negi

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

— Henry Rollins

James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

— Michael Nesmith

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

— Rufus Wilmot Griswold

With the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

— Anonymous

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

— Emily Dickinson

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

— Harold Bloom

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

— Oscar Wilde

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

— Ogden Nash

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

— Anonymous

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

— Stanley Kunitz

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

— James Fenton

“Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.”

— Delano Johnson