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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite. — Adam Nicolson

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. — James Thurber

A ... poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor. — Jorge Luis Borges

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles. — Socrates

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

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets. — Tom Hodgkinson

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 poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he's awake. — Marty Rubin

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

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His. — Socrates

In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves. — John Allison

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier. — James Bryant Conant

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

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet! — Jack Gleeson

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. — Emily Dickinson

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring. — Jules Renard

When man acts he is a puppet. When he describes he is a poet. — Oscar Wilde

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 must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. — W. H. Auden

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. — Emily Dickinson

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

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. — Horace

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

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times. — Carol Ann Duffy

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it. — Hilde Bruch

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you. — Paul Travis

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

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. — William Congreve

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line. — Basil Bunting

Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate. — Nicholas Roe

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. — W. H. Auden

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

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. — Bono

A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'. — Kamand Kojouri

English is now ours. We have colonized it, too. — Gemino Abad

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

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art. — Cesar Vallejo

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

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

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

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. — Joseph Brodsky

[When you meet a swordsman/ meet him with a sword Do not offer a poem to anyone but a poet] — Dan Simmons

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

There were poets before Homer. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. — Wallace Stevens

It always felt as though there were a shaken beehive living in my chest. I could never rest. — Stacy Morris

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. — Robert Morgan

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

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet. — Christian Morgenstern

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

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

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

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

Was ever poet so trusted before? — Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

Who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets? — Margaret Cavendish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. — Irving Bacheller

An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper. — E. O. Wilson

For the way of the comets is the poet's way. — Marina Tsvetaeva

A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor. — Vladimir Nabokov

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

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it. — Elizabeth Bear

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. — Lionel Trilling

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

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet. — Edward Hirsch

A robust Liberian middle-class fosters the advancement of social wealth and a well-educated Liberian society. — Henry Johnson Jr

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. — T. S. Eliot

Men consort in camp and town
But the poet dwells alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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