Poet Quotes · Page 35

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

— Khalil Gibran

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

— Rupi Kaur

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

“search and read my blog at pankajsundali.blogspot.in”

— Pankaj Sundali

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

— Mattie Stepanek

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

— Virginia Woolf

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write…

— Nicholson Baker

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain…

— Rembrandt

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

— David Allan Coe

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

— Helen Vendler

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier…

— Multatuli

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere…

— Horace

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq…

— Hassan Blasim

“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.”

— Cath Crowley

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the…

— Phyllis McGinley

All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets…

— James Elroy Flecker

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with…

— Abraham Maslow

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points…

— Arianna Huffington

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

— Ambrose Bierce

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

— Charles Baudelaire

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

— William Shenstone

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

— Billy Collins

“a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”

— Aristotle

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

— Ambrose Bierce

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

— John Krasinski

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

— Anne Sexton

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

— Kehinde Wiley

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“You’re speaking volumes, my friend, and tonight we’re doing short poems only.”

— André Aciman

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden