Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to...

George Smoot

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth ...

William Shakespeare

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

The Dream Songs: Poems

What's all this hiding happiness and wine away? I've lined up with the libertines now, come what may.

Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says ' ' the translation of which is— the poet is born, not made.

How to Speak and Write Correctly

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence ("Roundness")

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

He didn't know that sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around.

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other ("Poem")

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it...

Peter Davison

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

Eugenio Montale

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

Mary Oliver

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

E.B. White

(1)BEING A POET is like opening a car door & exposing yourself. (2)BEING A GOOD POET is like opening the door & exposing the passenger as well.

Chocolate Waters

John Keating: There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Dead Poets Society

John Keating: [the class hesitates to rip out the introduction page] It's not the Bible, you're not gonna go to Hell for this.

Dead Poets Society

John Keating: Phone call from God. If it had been collect, that would have been daring!

Dead Poets Society

Dalton: Gentlemen, what are the Four Pillars? Dalton, Meeks, Neil, Knox, Todd Anderson: Travesty. Horror. Decadence. Excrement.

Dead Poets Society

John Keating: I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. Nolan: At these boys' age? Not on your life!

Dead Poets Society

Knox: The point, Charlie... is... that she was thinking about me. I've only met her once, and already she's thinking about me.

Dead Poets Society

John Keating: Mr. Anderson! Don't think that I don't know that this assignment scares the hell out of you, you mole!

Dead Poets Society