Poet Quotes

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

No bad man can be a good poet.

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.