Quotes of: Poets Keyword

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

George Santayana

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

John Crowe Ransom

To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Douglas Dunn

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

James Dickey

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Jim Jarmusch

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

Seamus Heaney

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

Philip Pullman

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

John Drinkwater

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Philip Levine

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Robert Frost

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.

Tom Hodgkinson

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

Life

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Virginia Woolf

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

W. Somerset Maugham

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Stephane Mallarme

The Poets light but Lamps- Themselves-go out-

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson