Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

Rene Char

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Selenis Leyva

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Salvatore Quasimodo

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

Steven Sater

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Dick Gregory

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

Isaac Rosenberg

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

Mos Def

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

Wilfred Owen

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

Harry Chapin

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Edmund Waller

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poets sing our human music for us.

Carol Ann Duffy

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

H.L. Mencken

The American public does not know poets exist.

James Broughton

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Jose Bergamin

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Jean Cocteau

Life is a poem with passion and you are the poet with vision and mission.

Debasish Mridha

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Ben Hecht

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

Bryant H. McGill