Poet Quotes · Page 7

The true poet dreams being awake.

— Charles Lamb

We need help, the poet reckoned.

— Edward Dorn

“Banksy is a poet, but so was hitler.”

— Atticus

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

— Gil Scott-Heron

Even a poet cannot get everything right.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“You don't have to suffer to be a poet”

— John Ciardi

“You poet boys are dangerous.”

— Nicola Yoon

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

— Bob Dylan

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

— Gregory Orr

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Khalil Gibran

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

— Diane Wakoski

“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”

— Fernando Pessoa

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there…

— Pablo Picasso

“It's funny how fast a book goes, but how slow the wait appears. the book may end, but the mind still thinks...waiting…

— Nandanie Phalgoo

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per…

— John Crowe Ransom

Rupi Kaur is an author and poet who posts the most beautiful, thought-provoking excerpts on her Instagram.

— Vick Hope

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

— Michel de Montaigne

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to…

— Raymond Queneau

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of…

— James Vila Blake

We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary…

— Edward Abbey

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and…

— Hippocrates

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once,…

— Philip Larkin

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There…

— Helen Dunmore

O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the…

— Sergei Prokofiev

The poet is always our contemporary.

— Virginia Woolf

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

— Anonymous

Poet is not a copier but a creator.

— RMKATTA

The true poem is the poet's mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

— Octavio Paz

“Her silhouette never has regrets.”

— Delano Johnson

No bad man can be a good poet.

— Boris Pasternak

“In darkness, some flowers blossom!”

— Shirley Houston