Quotes of: Poet Keyword

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Conor Oberst

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Jean Anouilh

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

John Barton

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

J.G. Ballard

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Jean Cocteau

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Helen Dunmore

You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

Jack Ryan

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Jose Saramago

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

D.A. Botta

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

David Allan Coe

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Abraham Lincoln

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

Ken Kesey

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

Robert Penn Warren

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Alice Eve

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Lionel Trilling

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

Steve Earle

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

W. H. Auden

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire