Best 1314 quotes in «poet quotes» category

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, "That were to consider it too curiously.

For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.

God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been there. Maybe even the poet does not know, but he has been touched by something from the beyond.

God, eldest of Poets.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.