Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.

My Sad Republic

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.

Madame Bovary

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

The Poet

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Peter Bichsel

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

Peter Coyote

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

Philip Levine

Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.

Philip Larkin

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Robert Frost

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert A. Heinlein

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

Seamus Heaney

to be a poet means to live with a permanent wound forever susceptible to either the shade of the sky or someone's eyes.

Sanober Khan

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

Sanober Khan

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

Samuel Lover

Only the poet truly understands what is written between the pregnant pauses they create.

Shannon Lynette

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

T. S. Eliot

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

Muhammad Iqbal