Poet Quotes · Page 8

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

— Gil Scott-Heron

Even a poet cannot get everything right.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The true poet dreams being awake.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Atticus

We need help, the poet reckoned.

— Edward Dorn

“You poet boys are dangerous.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— Edward Hirsch

The poet is always our contemporary.

— Virginia Woolf

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

— Walt Whitman

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

— Gabriela Mistral

“I don't write sonnets, I rewrite society with my sonnets.”

— Abhijit Naskar

[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Your love is like star sky showers and magenta unicorns.”

— Delano Johnson

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

— Horace

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

— Robert Lowell

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in…

— Charles Baudelaire

... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting,…

— Michel de Montaigne

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply…

— Allan Kaprow

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person…

— Victoria Chang

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in…

— Wallace Stevens

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

— Ernest Hemingway

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all…

— George Sand

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the…

— E. M. Forster

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist…

— Sarah Jones

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If…

— Mitch Albom

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance…

— Nick Hornby

All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has…

— Gerald Stern

I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to…

— James A. Michener

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to…

— Hannah More

A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." -…

— Robert Frost

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

— John Ciardi

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

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

— Edward Dahlberg

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

— Matthew Arnold