True Poet Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

• A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau
• Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity… — Wassily Kandinsky
• The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the… — Jacob Grimm
• The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature. — Novalis
• Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the… — Steven Saylor
• Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions. — Heinrich Heine
• The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. — William Butler Yeats
• Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise,… — Robert Browning
• The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. — J D Salinger
• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to… — Salvatore Quasimodo
• Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves… — Jacob Grimm
• The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its… — Aberjhani
• The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that. — Allen Ginsberg
• The true poet dreams being awake. — Charles Lamb
• The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was… — William Blake
• The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. — Gustave Flaubert
• Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. — Alfred de Musset
• He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand

Who Wrote These True Poet Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 22 True Poet Quotes as follows:

• 2 True Poet Quotes by Jacob Grimm
• 2 True Poet Quotes by Allen Ginsberg
• 1 True Poet Quote by Eric Ludy
• 1 True Poet Quote by Jean Cocteau
• 1 True Poet Quote by Wassily Kandinsky
• 1 True Poet Quote by Novalis
• 1 True Poet Quote by Steven Saylor
• 1 True Poet Quote by Heinrich Heine
• 1 True Poet Quote by William Butler Yeats
• 1 True Poet Quote by Robert Browning
• 1 True Poet Quote by J D Salinger
• 1 True Poet Quote by Salvatore Quasimodo
• 1 True Poet Quote by Aberjhani
• 1 True Poet Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 1 True Poet Quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• 1 True Poet Quote by Charles Lamb
• 1 True Poet Quote by William Blake
• 1 True Poet Quote by Gustave Flaubert
• 1 True Poet Quote by Alfred de Musset
• 1 True Poet Quote by George Sand