Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

John Keating: Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Dead Poets Society

Gloria: Don't you guys miss having girls around here? Meeks, Pitts: Yeah.

Dead Poets Society

Nolan: Gentlemen, what are the Four Pillars? Crowd: Tradition. Honor. Discipline. Excellence.

Dead Poets Society

Knox: C'mon, Chris, just give me one chance. If you don't like me after tonight I'll stay away forever. Chris Noel: Uh-huh. Knox: I promise. Dead Poets Honor. You come with me tonight and then if you don't wanna see me again I swear I'll bow out. Chr...

Dead Poets Society

ZENITH NOON beats out on its solar anvil the rays of light

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

If a dream stubbornly returns from seemingly weightless nights; then give him your trust.

From Poet's Hand

With its proud wings of the eagle, lighter than air; In harmony with the universe, and always be full-fledged.

From Poet's Hand

Sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

I hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes.

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Natasha Trethewey

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent- a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

Rabih Alameddine

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Rita Dove

One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the Cup of Love.

Subhan Zein

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Huston Smith

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

Grace Zabriskie

John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Dead Poets Society

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

Erica Jong

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Andrew Motion

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.

Anuj Somany