Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

A Fine and Private Place

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

The Book of Disquiet

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Ama Ata Aidoo

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Alfred Marshall

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age...

Benazir Bhutto

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Salvatore Quasimodo

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Lascelles Abercrombie

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Laura Riding

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Invisible Man

... Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate.

John Keats: A New Life

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it works.

Rival Poet

...the Moon, the enemy of poets... ("Merchant's Two Sons")

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

The Mill on the Floss

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

Moonchild

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.

Maldoror and the Complete Works

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

the poet I saw once... but whose words have long been in my mind, windows of invincible candles...

The Neverfield: Poem

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

The Language of Fashion

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

A Simpler Way