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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

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 engineers of the future will be poets. — Terence McKenna

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes. — Marty Rubin

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

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. — Gustave Flaubert

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

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

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

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

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 great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so. — Idries Shah

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

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line. — Rollo May

Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard. — John Trudell

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

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. — Wislawa Szymborska

- Was I a swordsman then? sends Johnny. Or a poet? [Yes There is never one without the other] — Dan Simmons

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

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

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet. — Henry David Thoreau

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. — Andrew Motion

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

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

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

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

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. — Nikki Giovanni

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

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

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

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

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

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. — Philippe Petit

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. — Joseph Brodsky

A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others. — Ryan Holiday

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

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things. — Gayle Forman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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