Top Poet Quotes Collection
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A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.Collection: Poet
She was not a poet. She was a poem.Collection: Poet
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.Collection: Poet
A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.Collection: Poet
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.Collection: Poet
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.Collection: Poet
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.Collection: Poet
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.Collection: Poet
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.Collection: Poet
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.Collection: Poet
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.Collection: Poet
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.Collection: Poet
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.Collection: Poet
The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.Collection: Poet
who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?Collection: Poet
One must love a poet on its own terms.Collection: Poet
God, eldest of Poets.Collection: Poet
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.Collection: Poet
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.Collection: Poet
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.Collection: Poet
Poetics is a science for stammering poets.Collection: Poet
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.Collection: Poet
To be a poet you have to experiment.Collection: Poet
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.Collection: Poet
Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.Collection: Poet
When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.Collection: Poet
If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.Collection: Poet
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.Collection: Poet
Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.Collection: Poet
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.Collection: Poet
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.Collection: Poet
As we to the brutes, poets are to us.Collection: Poet
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.Collection: Poet
Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.Collection: Poet
I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets.Collection: Poet
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.Collection: Poet
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.Collection: Poet
Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.Collection: Poet
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirkCollection: Poet
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.Collection: Poet
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do itCollection: Poet
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.Collection: Poet
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.Collection: Poet
...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.Collection: Poet
I learn life from the poets.Collection: Poet
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.Collection: Poet
You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.Collection: Poet
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.Collection: Poet
The poet is always our contemporary.Collection: Poet
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.Collection: Poet