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Life is a poem with passion and you are the poet with vision and mission. — Debasish Mridha

Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes! — Avijeet Das

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. — Honore De Balzac

The poet begins where the man ends.
The man's lot is to live his human life,
the poet's to invent what is nonexistent. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Give a poet a pen — A. Jarrell Hayes

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. — Philip Larkin

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. — James Stephens

Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction. — William Blake

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

Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it sound like a faith. — Ariel Gore

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world. — Sanober Khan

I have these knives in my chest that can't become words. — Jenim Dibie

My highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket. — Alan C. Baird

Even the caged bird flys out when someone opens the door for it — Andrea L'Artiste

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture. — Andrea L'Artiste

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream. — Donald G. Mitchell

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.' — Philip Larkin

I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing. — Anne Carson

Your world is as big as you make it.
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner,
My wings pressing close to my side. — Georgia Douglas Johnson

I'm burning in despair
Love which you distanced from me
Return once again
I'll forgive you again
Return, Page 19 — Delicious David

So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny! — Avijeet Das

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. — Oscar Wilde

Some days I don't know what is greater.
My wisdom, or my stupidity. — Sanober Khan

In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word ... calming the fiercest winds of the soul. — The Refined Poet

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

Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit — Paul Travis

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. — David McCullough

Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life. — Debasish Mridha

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare. — Debasish Mridha

haiku moment: that moment of absolute intensity when the poet's grasp of his intuition is complete, so that the image lives its own life. Such — Kenneth Yasuda

We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected — James Wright

I walk with a dual longing
for life and for death. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

I understand loud and clearly, with my sound mind — Andrea L'Artiste

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear ... and hopefully your hairdo. — Minton Sparks

A poet is someone whose words can grasp & pull the thread of a person's soul & make them unravel with delight. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry. — Edward Hirsch

My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them. — Munia Khan

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

Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law. — Lara Biyuts

And then it dawned on me that the greatest love stories in the world never have happy endings. — Avijeet Das

Freedom is within,
You can't live life without it — Ocean Crisstopher Poet

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ... — Alice Walker

It was the time of year that makes every poet's heart sing and every lawyer question their life choices. — Portia Porter

A Poet's Death is His Life — Kahlil Gibran

Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. — Heinrich Heine

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet. — Subramanya Bharathi

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse. — Henry David Thoreau

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. — John Drinkwater

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple

I was born with my eyes turned inward. — David Joseph Cribbin

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's. — Wilfred Owen

I see the life with your sight,
O" the love; you're my light. — Debasish Mridha

The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired. — Khalil Gibran Muhammad

What poet's persuasion can reconcile the length of those days with the brevity of life? — Rainer Maria Rilke

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. — Henry David Thoreau

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton

I am a butterfly poet
birthed from pain
flying with the freedom
of my verses. — Susie Clevenger

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about. — Debasish Mridha

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders. — Joyce Cary

The thing I've learned writing my book is that everyone has the potential to be a poet, and all of our lives are epic. — Jonathan Heatt

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Closed eyes cannot see light — Andrea L'Artiste

When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged. — D.E. Navarro

The Poets light but Lamps-
Themselves-go out- — Emily Dickinson

Only the poet truly understands what is written between the pregnant pauses they create. — Shannon Lynette

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

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit — Benny Bellamacina

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

A Coy Aversion

...a flutter
too shy
to be seen... — Muse

There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one. — Steve Maraboli

You cannot deny the struggle; the struggle denies you. — Lori Jenessa Nelson

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches — Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

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

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

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

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

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. — R.M. Engelhardt

Never does a star grace this land with a poet's light of twinkling mysteries, nor does the sun send to here its rays of warmth and life. — R.A. Salvatore

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

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. — Saadi

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps
To some reader a latticework of regrets ... — John Ashbery

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand

How had his life become one a poet would be proud of? — Ellie Macdonald

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. — Edith Sitwell

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes. — Khalil Gibran

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel. — Alvaro De Campos

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read. — Joanna Scott

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself. — Cesar Vallejo

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams. — T.A. Barron

In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can't stop the lines in time, so I'm a novelist. — Colum McCann

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

You made a poet fall in love with the world. — Avijeet Das

A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. — Jim Harrison

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

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani

poems are small moments of enlightenment — Natalie Goldberg

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life. — D.A. Botta