Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

rassool jibraeel snyman

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Mary Timony

#Writers, #artists , and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

Mozaiah Thompson

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

Neil Gaiman

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

John Leguizamo

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Edmund Spenser

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Robert Hass

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Woody Allen

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

Lytton Strachey

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

Norman MacCaig

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.

Marilynne Robinson

Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.

Ray Manzarek

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

William Wiley

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

Franz Grillparzer

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

Francine Prose

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Charles Olson

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

James Broughton

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Joseph Brodsky

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Delmore Schwartz