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- Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that…
- We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.
- No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest…
- Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on…
- Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of…
- I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.
- I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
- This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the…
- I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.
- As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is the fierce light…
- I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.
- Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous…
- A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.
- So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation,…
- A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
- We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories,…
- The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is…
- I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear…
- Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making…
- The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding…
- The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is…
- A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.
- Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem?…
- Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.
- In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.
More Poet Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden