Quotes of: Poets Keyword

I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Poems ought to reflect the the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.

Crossing to Safety

I am a butterfly poet birthed from pain flying with the freedom of my verses.

Dirt Road Dreams

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

The Forgotten Garden

... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...

The Fall of Hyperion

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

A Fine and Private Place

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

The Book of Disquiet

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Ama Ata Aidoo

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Alfred Marshall

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age...

Benazir Bhutto

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Salvatore Quasimodo

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Lascelles Abercrombie

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Laura Riding

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Invisible Man

... Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate.

John Keats: A New Life

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it works.

Rival Poet