Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.

M.F. Moonzajer

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

Mattie Stepanek

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Alex Cox

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.

Louie Schwartzberg

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

Adrian Mitchell

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

Salvatore Quasimodo

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

John Keats

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Robert Frost

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Khalil Gibran

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

Richard Flanagan

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Jean Cocteau

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Edmund Waller

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Conor Oberst

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Jean Anouilh

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

John Barton

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

J.G. Ballard

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Jean Cocteau

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Helen Dunmore