Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

I’m going to become a beat poet and a lesbian!

June Cleaver Sexual Deviant

May the energy of the day always call for celebration." Barbara Botch

Poet's Crossing

The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret." Barbara Botch

Poet's Crossing

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.

The Poet

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Oliver Goldsmith

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

poets. have the toughest job in the universe- of turning silence into eloquence.

Sanober Khan

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Shan Sa

Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!

Saru Singhal

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

Simone Veil

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

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

Karl Jaspers

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

Muhammad Iqbal

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.

Michael Bassey Johnson

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

Peter Davison

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

George Santayana

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Heinrich Heine

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

Lee Strasberg

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Rebecca Harding Davis