Quotes of: True-poet Keyword

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

Michael Stipe

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Christopher Morley

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

Maya Angelou

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

Torquato Tasso

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Kenneth Branagh

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Edith Sitwell

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

John Drinkwater

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Howard Zinn

Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!

Dona Mayoora

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Debasish Mridha

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

George Henry Lewes

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

George Orwell

Poets take themselves very seriously.

Grace Paley

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.

Debasish Mridha

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

Jools Holland

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Carl Sandburg

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Dennis Potter

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Diane Wakoski

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

Peter Davison