Quotes of: True-poet Keyword

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

Philip Levine

Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.

Philip Larkin

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Robert Frost

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert A. Heinlein

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

Seamus Heaney

to be a poet means to live with a permanent wound forever susceptible to either the shade of the sky or someone's eyes.

Sanober Khan

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

Sanober Khan

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

Samuel Lover

Only the poet truly understands what is written between the pregnant pauses they create.

Shannon Lynette

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

T. S. Eliot

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

Muhammad Iqbal

Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.

M.F. Moonzajer

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

Mattie Stepanek

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Alex Cox

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.

Louie Schwartzberg

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

Adrian Mitchell

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

Salvatore Quasimodo