Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

Philip Pullman

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

John Drinkwater

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Philip Levine

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Robert Frost

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.

Tom Hodgkinson

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

Life

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Virginia Woolf

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

W. Somerset Maugham

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Stephane Mallarme

The Poets light but Lamps- Themselves-go out-

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

James Fenton

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Sinclair Lewis

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

John B. S. Haldane

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

Robby Krieger

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Killosophy

All writers are manipulative liars." Jack O. Savage, The Poet

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