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The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet. — Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. — Alice Walker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a poet who can whine in meter — Sherman Alexie

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

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

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 never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. — Kenneth Koch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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