Quotes of: Poet Keyword

Poets know all about famous places without having been there.

Japanese

Slowly but surely the excrement of foreign poets will come to your village.

Malian

if what is true brings us sorrow, / if what sorrow brings is truth

New Poets, Short Books, Volume V

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

The Poet and The Painter

It was a Saturday, soft and silent, when the Wind spoke for the first time.

Death of the Poet King

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

Robert Adamson

The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.

G.K. Chesterton

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Hesiod

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Ernest Hemingway

Todd Anderson: [standing on his desk] Oh captain, my captain.

Dead Poets Society

John Keating: Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Dead Poets Society

Gloria: Don't you guys miss having girls around here? Meeks, Pitts: Yeah.

Dead Poets Society

Nolan: Gentlemen, what are the Four Pillars? Crowd: Tradition. Honor. Discipline. Excellence.

Dead Poets Society

Knox: C'mon, Chris, just give me one chance. If you don't like me after tonight I'll stay away forever. Chris Noel: Uh-huh. Knox: I promise. Dead Poets Honor. You come with me tonight and then if you don't wanna see me again I swear I'll bow out. Chr...

Dead Poets Society

ZENITH NOON beats out on its solar anvil the rays of light

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

If a dream stubbornly returns from seemingly weightless nights; then give him your trust.

From Poet's Hand

With its proud wings of the eagle, lighter than air; In harmony with the universe, and always be full-fledged.

From Poet's Hand

Sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

I hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes.

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Natasha Trethewey