Quotes of: True-poet Keyword

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

John Keats

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Robert Frost

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Khalil Gibran

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

Richard Flanagan

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Jean Cocteau

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Edmund Waller

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Conor Oberst

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Jean Anouilh

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

John Barton

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

J.G. Ballard

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Jean Cocteau

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Helen Dunmore

You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

Jack Ryan

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Jose Saramago

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

D.A. Botta

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

David Allan Coe

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Abraham Lincoln

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

Ken Kesey

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

Robert Penn Warren