Quotes about poet

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“Scientist alone is true poet.”

“Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.”

“Such was a poet and shall be and is
-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.”

“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”

“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”

“It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.”

“I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.”

“I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.”

“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”

“Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.”

“To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.”

“Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.”

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”

“A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.”

“Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”

“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”

“When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied. "It's so seldom I have one.”

“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”

“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.”

“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.”

“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”

“Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.”

“A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…”

“Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.”

“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”

“The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.”

“A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.”

“He was a great poet" They lamented.

No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?”

“I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.”

“A poet's work… to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”

“She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence… they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good…”

“How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.”

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”

“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.”

“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

“a poem is a naked person... some people say that I am a poet”

“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”

“She was not a poet. She was a poem.”

“Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.”

“Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality…and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.”

“I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it”

“I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.”

“He consorted with prostitutes and poets… and with persons even worse.”

“Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.”

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.”

“To have great poets,
there must be great audiences.”

“If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.”

“Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.”

“A poet is a musician who can't sing.”

“I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.”

“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.”

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.”

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

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”

“[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.”

“The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.”

“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”

“I look at you and you look at me and
deep in our hearts know it

That you weren't much of a muse,
but then I weren't much of a poet”

“The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.”

“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”

“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. His auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician.”

“Magnus thought of James Herondale, burning up with too much light, too much love, too much, too much- while the boy in the portrait was as lovely as a dying poet, with the fragile beauty of a candle about to gutter out.”

“Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”

“but as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry.”

“I'm a poet who can whine in meter”

“All a poet can do today is warn.”

“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”

“The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.”

“That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.”

“Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and then die in the hands of politicians.”

“a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being”

“It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”

“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.”

“said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.”

“As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree"— probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.”

“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.”

“When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.”

“A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great.”

“Poets are born knowing the language of angels.”

“He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.”

“They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.”

“I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost… but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth
other poets. I want someone to mouth me.”

“My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.”

“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.”

“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”

“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”

“When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

“For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”

“Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.”

“One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.”

“I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U. S. poet and writer, 1943- )”