Quotes of: True-poet Keyword

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

Wilfred Owen

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

Harry Chapin

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Edmund Waller

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poets sing our human music for us.

Carol Ann Duffy

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

H.L. Mencken

The American public does not know poets exist.

James Broughton

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Jose Bergamin

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Jean Cocteau

Life is a poem with passion and you are the poet with vision and mission.

Debasish Mridha

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Ben Hecht

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Helen Hayes

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

Robert Wyatt

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Niels Bohr

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nathalie Sarraute

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

George Meredith

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

Aberjhani

A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.

Love

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Wallace Stevens