Poet Quotes · Page 34

“A poet is a pet to the master that suffers.”

— Harpreet Singh Nanda

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

— Beatrice Wood

“Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!”

— Saru Singhal

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

— Jules Renard

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

— Ann Demeulemeester

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

— Aristophanes

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

— Jeanette Winterson

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the…

— Donovan

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

— Edward Abbey

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer…

— Adam Kirsch

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different…

— Tony Kushner

“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.”

— Suzy Kassem

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as…

— Anonymous

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is…

— Joseph Brodsky

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for…

— Gaston Bachelard

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on…

— Fernando Botero

My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on…

— Justin Cartwright

Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers…

— Ameen Rihani

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,…

— Steve Lacy

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and…

— Arthur Rimbaud

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

— Anonymous

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

— Michael Stipe

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

— Philip James Bailey

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

— Shan Sa

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,

— Alister E. McGrath

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

— Charles Olson

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

— Aldous Huxley

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

— Aberjhani

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

— Jose Bergamin

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

— Gregory Orr

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

— Bob Dylan

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

— Henry David Thoreau

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

— Diane Wakoski