Quotes of: Poets Keyword

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

Muhammad Iqbal

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.

Michael Bassey Johnson

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

Peter Davison

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

George Santayana

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Heinrich Heine

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

Lee Strasberg

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

Nicholson Baker

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Orson Welles

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

Susan Glaspell

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Tom Glazer

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

James Broughton

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Amelia Barr

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

Edmund Wilson

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

Ice Cube

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

John Barton

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

John Barton

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

E. M. Forster

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

Ben Harper

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

Brian Harris