Quotes of: Poets Keyword

A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

James Fenton

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Sinclair Lewis

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

John B. S. Haldane

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

Robby Krieger

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Killosophy

All writers are manipulative liars." Jack O. Savage, The Poet

September Ends

He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.

My Sad Republic

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.

Madame Bovary

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

The Poet

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Peter Bichsel

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

Peter Coyote

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

Philip Levine

Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.

Philip Larkin

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Robert Frost

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert A. Heinlein

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

Seamus Heaney

to be a poet means to live with a permanent wound forever susceptible to either the shade of the sky or someone's eyes.

Sanober Khan