Poet Quotes · Page 5

As we to the brutes, poets are to us.

— George Meredith

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

— Dylan Thomas

Poet's food is love and fame.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Memory is a poet, not a historian.”

— Paul Geraldy

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

— Carlos Drummond de Andrade

To be a poet you have to experiment.

— Matthea Harvey

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

— Jack Spicer

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

— William Butler Yeats

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

— Clive Barker

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

— Robert Frost

I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet…

— Billy Bragg

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves,…

— Raymond Carver

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing…

— Jonathan Swift

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

— Wislawa Szymborska

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

— Franz Grillparzer

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.…

— Joshua Reynolds

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share…

— Sarah Kay

The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared…

— Michael Tierra

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on…

— T.S. Mathews

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by…

— Wendy C. Ortiz

“THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless. Three…

— Suzy Kassem

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer…

— Isadora Duncan

“And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet.”

— Christopher Marlowe

“Birds are the eyes of Heaven.”

— Suzy Kassem

“I am part of all that I have met.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

Honor is the greatest poet.

— Dante Alighieri

A poet must sing for his own people.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

— Jack Kerouac