Poet Quotes

Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.

No man was ever yet a great poet without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is un...

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he h...

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

The man is either mad or he is making verses.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...

I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming...

Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'?

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite...

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Ve...

These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a...

Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child -...

Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental br...

In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life valu...

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matter...

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

Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll...

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR HU...

In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there w...

TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detr...

ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born of th...

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participa...

For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the hig...

When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall g...

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, make...

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night,Drives Nigh...

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That ...

And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came ...

The poet is rather one who inspires than one inspired.

And on the pedestal these words appear:'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mi...

It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise every...

What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an exc...

I have wished you something None of the others would....

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

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by childr...

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't ...

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiratio...

The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power ...

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy ...

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

we want it visible to showwhen even the most visible joy will reveal itselfonly when we have tran...

For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great...

If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s not be...

Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage ...

Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personal...

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much t...

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with maje...

All men are poets at heart.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profit...

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that i...

God is the perfect poet.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;A-c...

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?” “I've never been accused of poetry before.

I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter Aug...

Just as the poet is a menace to conformity, he is also a constant threat to political dictators. He ...

He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi...

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human,...

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has bee...

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy...

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my w...

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poe...

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not reall...

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their ...

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat,...

The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive...

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is t...

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are ...

The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . T...

One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the wo...

I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irri...

How to be a Poet (to remind myself)Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upo...

I believe that Gaston Cleric narrowly missed being a great poet, and I have sometimes thought that h...

To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we...

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace ...

Question not, but live and labourTill yon goal be won,Helping every feeble neighbour,Seeking help fr...

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enor...

The so-called poet with his vague dreams and ideals is indeed no better than a harmless lunatic; the...

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand al...