Quotes of: Poets Keyword

People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

Bayard Taylor

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

Russell Simmons

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Umberto Eco

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

F. Sionil Jose

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Benjamin Franklin

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Guillaume Apollinaire

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

William Butler Yeats

You become the best poet when you are at the peak of your emotion, whatever that may be.

Aireen Pontillo

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Anne Sexton

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Anne Stevenson

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

Bo Burnham

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

Robert Morgan

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

Love

Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.

Life

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Wislawa Szymborska

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

Yehudi Menuhin

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

Marilyn Hacker

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

Marilyn Hacker

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Jean Giraudoux

A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a very amusing sight: the cobblestones are standing upright like the quills of a porcupine. The bullets hitting against their edges displace and...

The Captive Mind

This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked up to. Young and upcoming poets must approac...

Feeding The Beasts