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

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet. — Henry David Thoreau

Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it. — Philip Pullman

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet's eyes. — Vera Brittain

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. — Dorianne Laux

Poets and children," said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that. — Patricia MacLachlan

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that. — Allen Ginsberg

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada. — George Murray

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot — Muriel Rukeyser

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ... — Vita Sackville-West

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. — Oscar Wilde

Cities are built out of poet's dreams. — Marty Rubin

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet. — Action Bronson

The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes. — Marty Rubin

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. — Edmond De Goncourt

YOUR WORDS ARE MADE OF THE AIR I BREATHE. — Amy King

Be a poet in action as well as in words. — Marty Rubin

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

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table. — Yvor Winters

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. — Samuel McChord Crothers

A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. — Patrick Rothfuss

We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result. — Mick McCarthy

Was ever poet so trusted before? — Samuel Johnson

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. — Jenim Dibie

You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up the
poet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot

Jewel moved 432,000 hardcover copies of A Night Without Armor, thereby making her the best-selling American poet of the past fifty years. — Chuck Klosterman

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen. — Utah Phillips

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better. — Harriet Monroe

A person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time. — Vladimir Nabokov

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker ... — Pablo Neruda

They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own. — William Cowper

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best. — Randall Jarrell

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies — Oscar Sparrow

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated. — Alexandre Dumas

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes, — T. S. Eliot

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. — Paul Claudel

Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute. — Raymond E. Feist

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. — Kenneth Koch

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner

My friend, it was but a song of love out of a poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman. — Kahlil Gibran

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. — Kenneth Koch

I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored — Tushar Raheja

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

You know my mom told me to stop wearing my heart on my sleeve today and I told her sometimes I have to hang my feelings out to dry... — Poet On Watch

There Are No Believers in This World:
There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers.
— Sharon Esther Lampert

I'm a poet who can whine in meter — Sherman Alexie

Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?
Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy? — Danabelle Gutierrez

Standing is symbolic of life itself,
Open space is just a distance between you and someone else — Mira Midha

She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable. — Deborah Levy

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

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't send a poet to London. — Heinrich Heine

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Simone Veil

Who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets? — Margaret Cavendish