Poet Quotes · Page 6

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

— Paul Verlaine

Let the poet always walk thus

— Anonymous

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

— Wallace Stevens

There are poets and there are grownups.

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Rahman Mostafiz

A poet's first contract is with truth.

— Vanna Bonta

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

— Ada Lovelace

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

— Henry David Thoreau

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

— Anonymous

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

— Pattiann Rogers

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally,…

— Margaret Atwood

Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a…

— Siddharth Katragadda

Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.

— Betty Dravis

“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit…

— Ocean Crisstopher Poet

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

— Michael Pena

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

— Robert Graves

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let…

— James Laughlin

It was a little harder when I first went to Egypt when I was 18 years old and being a white woman…

— Anne Waldman

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated…

— Alan Bennett

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly,…

— John Ruskin

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to…

— T. S. Eliot

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic…

— Leonardo Boff

Poets are born, not paid.

— Addison Mizner

“The poets and writers are born stylists!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

They are poets of gesture.

— George Balanchine

“Live for everything, or die for nothing”

— Nate Spears

a poet never feels useful.

— May Sarton

“to the poet a pearl is a tear of the sea”

— Jules Verne

A good poet's made as well as born.

— Ben Jonson

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

— David Carradine