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

You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet; because poetry is beyond hooks and holes. — M.F. Moonzajer

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer. — Lewis Hyde

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

The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality. — Christina Strigas

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

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

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet. — Lytton Strachey

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

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet. — William Everson

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

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is - the poet is born, not made. — Joseph Devlin

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

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian. — Alysia Harris

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words. — Debasish Mridha

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

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't. — Sylvia Plath

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry. — Anthony Mackie

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

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out. — Sara Genn

No sword
Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,
But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word
She shook the world. — Alfred Tennyson

Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build. — Nate Spears

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

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

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

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

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery. — John Lennon

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

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

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. — Misha Collins

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry. — Federico Garcia Lorca

A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings. — Debasish Mridha

The poet I saw once ...
but whose words have long been
in my mind, windows of invincible candles ... — Nathalie Handal

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

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

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

Poets sing our human music for us. — Carol Ann Duffy

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau

Tonight, I won't dream, because nobody
has held me and no hands have strayed and even
though I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it. — Wendy Cope

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet. — Lenore Kandel

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built. — Billy Bragg

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

While the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space,
the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. — Vladimir Nabokov

For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent. — Debasish Mridha

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

...the Moon, the enemy of poets...

("Merchant's Two Sons") — Giambattista Basile

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

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. — William Butler Yeats

Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer. — Debasish Mridha

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass

You can't break up with a soul mate. — Christina Strigas

Poetry expresses emotion. What does your inner poet convey? — Kym Gordon Moore

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

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

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

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. — Frank O'Hara

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe. — Comte De Lautreamont

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading. — Billy Collins

I think of New York City lost in stars
forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love
Tonight the night is full; — Gregory Corso

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

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

There were poets before Homer. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery. — Anne Sexton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard

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

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message. — Andrei Tarkovsky

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. — Edith Hamilton

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

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve. — Philip Larkin

The sun surrendered its splendor - why, it was like poetry; he was a poet; Norman smiled. He was many things. If they only knew - - But — Robert Bloch

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

A Coy Aversion

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

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

There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand. — Guy Clark

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

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits. — Saint-John Perse

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid. — Nate Spears

YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING. — Amy King

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