Quotes of: Poets Keyword

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

John Drinkwater

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

Mira Nair

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

Norman MacCaig

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

Paul Dano

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Philip Levine

Sometimes writers (poets) expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Sigmund Freud

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

Stevie Nicks

In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

Salvatore Quasimodo

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Salvatore Quasimodo

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

T. S. Eliot

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Thomas Hardy

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Krist Novoselic

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

Luc Ferrari

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Michelle Geaney

Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers.

Marty Rubin

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Hannah Arendt

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

Steven Heighton

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Gustave Flaubert

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

Ella R. Bloor