Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

Daisy, simple and discreet flower, That earned the heart of this poet.

Small Portion: a little taste of poetry

There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three.

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--

The Prelude

Poetry expresses emotion. What does your inner poet convey?

Wings of the Wind: A Cornucopia of Poetry

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

Eugene Cernan

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Mark Strand

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Novalis

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Paul Muldoon

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.

Pablo Neruda

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

Philippe Petit

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art

Percy Bysshe Shelley

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

Robert Graves

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Salman Rushdie

When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart

Subhan Zein

There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.

Toba Beta

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

Theophile Gautier

The clips hurt. The presence of a chainsaw was terrifying. And Noah did not want to hear about insane Nazi poets.

Michael Grant BZRK

Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.

Mohit.K.Misra

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Max Jacob

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

Marilyn Nelson