Quotes of: Poets Keyword

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.

Debasish Mridha

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

Jools Holland

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Carl Sandburg

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred de Musset

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Dennis Potter

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Diane Wakoski

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

Peter Davison

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Salvatore Quasimodo

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Charlie Chaplin

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

James Broughton

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I bleed myself to be your drink: Is not the blood of poets—ink?

Love

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

Walter Dean Myers

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Wislawa Szymborska

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

Peter Davison

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

Crossing to Safety

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Goldfinger

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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