John Keating: Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, [imitating a goat] John Keating: "that's baaaaad." ...
Todd Anderson: Mr. Keating! They made everybody sign it. Nolan: Quiet, Mr. Anderson. Todd Anderson: You gotta believe me. It's true. John Keating: I do believe you, Todd. Nolan: Leave, Mr. Keating. Todd Anderson: But it wasn't his fault! Nolan: Sit d...
Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose")
A Poet never denies creativity entrance.
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
Cities are built out of poet's dreams.
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
God is the perfect poet.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately...
I have been enormously impressed by the role that pure chance plays in determining our life history. I was reminded of some famous lines of Robert Frost: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both I took the one less travl...
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
We must listen to poets.
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.
