Poet Quotes · Page 4

There are poets and there are grownups.

— Jean Cocteau

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

— Edith Sitwell

I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.

— Julia Holter

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

— Paul Verlaine

Let the poet always walk thus

— Anonymous

“A poet is for poetry Not for you and me.”

— Rahman Mostafiz

A poet's first contract is with truth.

— Vanna Bonta

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

— Del Close

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

— Tom Stoppard

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

— Etheridge Knight

“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

And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.

— William Cowper

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very…

— Jack Gleeson

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice…

— e. e. cummings

the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry,…

— Galway Kinnell

I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.

— Amanda Gorman

Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

— William Watson

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I…

— Peter Kreeft

The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think…

— Sara Teasdale

But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…

— C. S. Lewis

“To the poet, Every act is poetry; From cutting the grass, To cleaning a headstone. From walking, To breathing. Every act is…

— Eric Overby

The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized…

— John Burroughs

A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to…

— Charles Kingsley

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of…

— George MacDonald

We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni…

— Don Alias

"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other…

— Paul Weller

I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said,…

— Russell Simmons

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

— Ada Lovelace

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poet, teach us to love our dying.”

— Robert Kroestch

Always be a poet, even in prose.

— Charles Baudelaire

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

— Jean Cocteau

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

— Thomas Campbell

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

— Marie Howe

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras