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People's Poet Quotes & Sayings

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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. — Barbara Kingsolver

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute

Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"! — Bertolt Brecht

A poem is a naked person ... Some people say that I am a poet. — Bob Dylan

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

Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization. — Wallace Stegner

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker. — Katy Lederer

If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest. — Tobias Hill

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

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences. — Antjie Krog

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love. — Charlotte Eriksson

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

SO MANY PEOPLE, SO FEW POETS — Amy King

The poet's function is to make his imagination ... become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives. — Wallace Stevens

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

Hence as the poet says: People in love cannot be moved by kindness, And opposition makes them feel like martyrs. — C.S. Lewis

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

A poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed. — Carolina Maria De Jesus

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind. — Ai Weiwei

The people who pray together build together a better world — Ocean Crisstopher Poet

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. — Idries Shah

A poet must sing for his own people. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony needs
low and high,
as progeny needs
man and woman. — Heraclitus

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart. — Maya Angelou

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. — Peter Davison

What does "poet laureate" mean? Nothing. It means a person with laurel branches twined around his head. Which is not something people do much now. — Nicholson Baker

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist. — Leslie Fiedler

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet. — Grace Zabriskie

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was. — Paul Muldoon

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch. — Criss Jami

Logic, when applied to people, fails miserably! — Joseph J. Breunig 3rd

Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet. — Allen Ginsberg

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

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against. — Rod McKuen

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind. — Christina Aguilera

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour. — W. Somerset Maugham

I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look! — Gayathri Jayakumar

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