Quotes of: Poet Keyword

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

Mary MacLane

Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.

Marty Rubin

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

Christina Aguilera

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Robert Morgan

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Plato

No bad man can be a good poet.

Boris Pasternak

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Kenneth Koch

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

Robert Giroux

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

Jason Silva

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Carl Rakosi

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

Carolyn Kizer

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

Ben Johnson

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

Bhagat Singh

Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life.

Debasish Mridha

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

Janet Frame

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Anne Stevenson

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

David Duchovny

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Jean Cocteau

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Mahmoud Darwish

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Lotte Lehmann

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Andrew Motion