Quotes of: Poet Keyword

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Salman Rushdie

When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart

Subhan Zein

There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.

Toba Beta

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

Theophile Gautier

The clips hurt. The presence of a chainsaw was terrifying. And Noah did not want to hear about insane Nazi poets.

Michael Grant BZRK

Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.

Mohit.K.Misra

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Max Jacob

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

Marilyn Nelson

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

rassool jibraeel snyman

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Mary Timony

#Writers, #artists , and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

Mozaiah Thompson

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

Neil Gaiman

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

John Leguizamo

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Edmund Spenser

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Robert Hass

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Woody Allen

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

Lytton Strachey

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

Norman MacCaig

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.

Marilynne Robinson

Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.

Ray Manzarek