Quotes of: Poet Keyword

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

Tommy Chong

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

Ted Kooser

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

Marty Rubin

The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.

Marty Rubin

The poet's task is to give every echo a voice.

Marty Rubin

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

Maximilian Schell

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

Michael Stipe

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Christopher Morley

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

Maya Angelou

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

Torquato Tasso

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Kenneth Branagh

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

William Shenstone

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Edith Sitwell

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

John Drinkwater

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Howard Zinn

Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!

Dona Mayoora

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Debasish Mridha

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

George Henry Lewes

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

George Orwell

Poets take themselves very seriously.

Grace Paley