Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

a criminal sketch of Christ on a diner napkin -'Poet Prophets

Drunk Dialing the Divine

...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...

A Familiar Rain

Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.

The Forsaken

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Lloyd Wright

YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.

I WANT TO MAKE YOU SAFE

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

Sexing the Cherry

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

A Moveable Feast

In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line.

A moment with God ; Poetry

You don't have to flay him with it. He's the son of a poet and has the soul of a bard.

Kiss Across Time

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

Letters to a Young Poet

Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

Madame Bovary

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Parnassus on Wheels

Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.

Rare People and Rare Books

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

John Drinkwater

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

Mira Nair

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

Norman MacCaig

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

Paul Dano

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Philip Levine

Sometimes writers (poets) expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Sigmund Freud