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Being A Poet Quotes & Sayings

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Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty. — Judith Rich Harris

Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl.
Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered.
Take your time.
Then imagine God.
M. Barin, poet — Hakan Nesser

Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions. — Mohit K. Misra

It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more. — Alexander McCall Smith

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. — Victor Hugo

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they — John Keats

The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination. — Ocean Crisstopher Poet

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. — W.S. Merwin

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life. — Kathleen Raine

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great. — Nick Flynn

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things. — Stephen Vincent Benet

I think being a poet, period, is isolating. — Victoria Chang

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. — Frances Mayes

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet. — Pearl Cleage

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

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing. — Robin Morgan

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by. — Jewel

Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive. — Tennessee Williams

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet. — Vladimir Nabokov

A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine. — Marty Rubin

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs
no regular hours, so many temptations! — Elizabeth Bishop

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet. — Vikram Seth

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet. — Rita Dove

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

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer — Gordon Parks

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. — Sofia Kovalevskaya

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. — Luc Delahaye

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet ... So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue. — Tom Waits

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. — Eileen Myles

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton