Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

Jason Silva

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Carl Rakosi

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

Carolyn Kizer

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

Ben Johnson

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

Bhagat Singh

Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life.

Debasish Mridha

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

Janet Frame

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Anne Stevenson

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

David Duchovny

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

Jean Cocteau

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Mahmoud Darwish

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Lotte Lehmann

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Andrew Motion

Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.

Life

When you have crush you become nothing but a poet

Love

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

W. H. Auden

All a poet can do today is warn.

Wilfred Owen

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

William Wycherley

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Malcolm de Chazal

Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into being to confuse us with cryptograms, or high platitudes, or pompous pretensions. The poet was meant to be a seer; he was desi...

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