Quotes of: True-poet Keyword

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Alice Eve

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Lionel Trilling

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

Steve Earle

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

W. H. Auden

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

Bayard Taylor

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Umberto Eco

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

F. Sionil Jose

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Benjamin Franklin

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Guillaume Apollinaire

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

William Butler Yeats

You become the best poet when you are at the peak of your emotion, whatever that may be.

Aireen Pontillo

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Anne Sexton

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Anne Stevenson

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

Bo Burnham

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

Robert Morgan

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

Love

Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.

Life

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Wislawa Szymborska