Poet Quotes · Page 41

[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

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

— Delano Johnson

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

— Harpreet Singh Nanda

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

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

— Saru Singhal

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

— Oscar Wilde

One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort…

— Ron Franscell

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and…

— Joyce Kilmer

“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but…

— E. B. White

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and…

— B. F. Skinner

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our…

— Janet Malcolm

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

— Oscar Wilde

“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under…

— Sanhita Baruah

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who…

— Mark Forsyth

And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not…

— Plato

“Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would…

— Suzy Kassem

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the…

— Christian Wiman

“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a…

— David Duchovny

That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to…

— Shane McCrae

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

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

— Dan Simmons

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

— Joyce Cary

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

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

— Ritu Negi

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

— Harold Bloom

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

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

— Rufus Wilmot Griswold

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

— Michael Nesmith

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers…

— Audre Lorde

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of…

— C. S. Lewis

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson