Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

Jack Ryan

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Jose Saramago

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

D.A. Botta

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

David Allan Coe

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Abraham Lincoln

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

Ken Kesey

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

Robert Penn Warren

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Alice Eve

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Lionel Trilling

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

Steve Earle

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

W. H. Auden

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

Bayard Taylor

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

Russell Simmons

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Umberto Eco

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

F. Sionil Jose

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Benjamin Franklin

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Guillaume Apollinaire

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

William Butler Yeats