Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

Stevie Nicks

In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

Salvatore Quasimodo

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Salvatore Quasimodo

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

T. S. Eliot

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Thomas Hardy

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Krist Novoselic

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

Luc Ferrari

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Michelle Geaney

Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers.

Marty Rubin

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Hannah Arendt

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

Steven Heighton

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Gustave Flaubert

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

Ella R. Bloor

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

George Grosz

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Jean Giraudoux

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

Donald G. Mitchell

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Philip James Bailey

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Sarah Kay

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Lewis Cass