Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

Peter Davison

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Salvatore Quasimodo

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Charlie Chaplin

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

James Broughton

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I bleed myself to be your drink: Is not the blood of poets—ink?

Love

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

Walter Dean Myers

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Wislawa Szymborska

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

Peter Davison

As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I've never questioned the justification for resorting to force. That's why I supported Vietnam's...

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

Crossing to Safety

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

Goldfinger

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Alarms and Discursions

The poet Swinburne said that spring begins 'blossom by blossom.

Snowed In: A Novel

Enjoy a life of poverty. Become a poet.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

George Murray

Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.

Lara Biyuts

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

Orson F. Whitney

The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.

Paul Eluard

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

Plato