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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

Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. — Philip Larkin

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. — Marlon Brando

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

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous. — Eileen Myles

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

it's so easy to be a poet
and so hard to be
a man. — Charles Bukowski

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. — Anthony Hecht

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

I get into beatific cornucopia when I delve into books, coffee, and wanderings! — Avijeet Das

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. — Steven Seagal

The poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. — Philip Sidney

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

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

They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page. — Richard Yates

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. — Don Blanding

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain. — Norman Cousins

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. — Lewis Cass

The poet made eating salad with your fingers seem to be the only natural and sensible thing to do. — Sylvia Plath

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

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. — Cecil Day-Lewis

That is all. Two epochs met.
A silly little girl and an old poet. — Lina Kostenko

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

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

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

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems. — Edward Hirsch

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

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. — Seth Godin

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German. — Paul Celan

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

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. — Jacob Grimm

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

He didn't have enough imagination to be a mathematician, but now he's a poet and he's doing fine. — Robert Eastaway

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

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano

Today is half of Yesterday and Tomorrow, Choose Today to make Tomorrow — Yando Wanii Nimbo

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. — William Wordsworth

Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale. — R.J. Craddock

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

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. — Torquato Tasso

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

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

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

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ... — Leni Riefenstahl

To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know. — William S. Burroughs

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

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation. — Jean Cocteau

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

When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart — Subhan Zein

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

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality. — Elizabeth Blade

Poet, writer and anti-royalist — Alan Hardy

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

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms. — Paul Valery

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Love is like a magic trick
You know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in line
And pay to see it again and again. — Yarro Rai

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible. — Audre Lorde

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance — Philip Larkin

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost. — Ray Manzarek

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

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees. — Ged Thompson

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

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid. — Umberto Eco

If if could bottle and patent 'Logic', I'd give it away. — Andrea L'Artiste

This is really what you want? To live with a poet?" "Yes," she said. "With the hot plate? And the lice? — Joshua Ferris

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life. — John F. Kennedy

A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, — Carolyn Kizer

They are fools who kiss and tell'
Wisely has the poet sung.
Man may hold all sorts of posts
If he'll only hold his tongue. — Rudyard Kipling

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. — Joseph Campbell

A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better. — Richard Hugo

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

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels. — Natalie Goldberg

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. — George Orwell

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

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

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

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

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do. — Victoria Chang

Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. — Henry David Thoreau

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. — Gabriela Mistral

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce. — Grace Paley

When we let go and let God, Freedom and peace are revealed. When Freedom and peace is revealed God's light never goes out. — Ocean Crisstopher Poet

Poet's food is love and fame. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed — Don McLean

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself. — F. Sionil Jose

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos. — Bill Vaughan

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. — Geraldine Brooks

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

A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. — Salman Rushdie