Quotes of: Poet Keyword

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

H.L. Mencken

The American public does not know poets exist.

James Broughton

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Jose Bergamin

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Jean Cocteau

Life is a poem with passion and you are the poet with vision and mission.

Debasish Mridha

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Ben Hecht

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

Bryant H. McGill

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Helen Hayes

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

Robert Wyatt

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Niels Bohr

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nathalie Sarraute

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

George Meredith

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

Aberjhani

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.

Life

A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.

Love

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Wallace Stevens

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

Yehuda Amichai

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

Aristophanes

It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is a whole series of converging reasons why it is somewhat easier for a poet than a prose writer to feel at home in an authoritarian ...

50 Essays

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

Life of Geoffrey Chaucer; The Early English Poet: Including Memoirs of His Near Friend and Kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: With Sketches of the Manners, Opinions, Arts and Literature of England in the Fourteenth Century Volume 1