Quotes of: Poets Keyword

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent- a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

Rabih Alameddine

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Rita Dove

One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the Cup of Love.

Subhan Zein

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Huston Smith

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

Grace Zabriskie

John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Dead Poets Society

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

Erica Jong

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Andrew Motion

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.

Anuj Somany

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth ...

William Shakespeare

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

The Dream Songs: Poems

What's all this hiding happiness and wine away? I've lined up with the libertines now, come what may.

Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says ' ' the translation of which is— the poet is born, not made.

How to Speak and Write Correctly

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence ("Roundness")

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

He didn't know that sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around.

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other ("Poem")

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it...

Peter Davison

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Rita Dove

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

Eugenio Montale