A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace Mann
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.
G. K. Chesterton
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
John Adams
God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.
Robert Browning
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
C. S. Lewis
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
Howard Nemerov
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
Robert A. Heinlein
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
Heinrich Heine
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Rod Sterling
Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young.
James Elroy Flecker
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
Carl Rakosi
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Let the poet always walk thus.
Alfred Victor Vigny
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
Walt Whitman
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
Touch of the Poet.
Gabriel Byrne
I saw his love for the priesthood, just by being himself, ... He is like a poet, capturing the essence of life without words.
John Noonan
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
Paul Engle
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
Dudley Moore
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Marlon Brando
But I was a poet before I was an actor.
Casper Van Dien
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."
Robert Penn Warren
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
Vissarion Belinsky
MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear.
Ambrose Bierce
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.
Louis Untermeyer
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life... the companion... the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.
Mark Van Doren
As a poet I am not primarily concerned with intellect. I'm not that smart. I want to make people laugh and cry.
Richard Shelton
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?
Joyce Carol Oates
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
Torquato Tasso
The north hill is devoted to Paul Klee the musician and teacher, the central hill to the painter and poet and the south hill to the researcher and mathematician.
Renzo Piano
LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he 'lost his election'; and of that eminent man, the poet Gilder, that he has 'lost his mind.' It is in the former and more legitimate sense, that the word is used in the famous epitaph: Here Huntington's ashes long have lain Whose loss is our eternal gain, Fo.
Ambrose Bierce
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there.
Freddie Mercury
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet.
Yehudi Menuhin
The best living poet.
Harold Bloom
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Lionel Trilling
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
Charles Ives
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
H. L. Mencken
His voice is that of a jazz-blues poet. He is the genuine article. He gave employment to hundreds of artists but his voice touched, entertained and inspired many millions more. It's really hard to comprehend that this is happening.
Tazewell Thompson
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Helen Hayes
We have been fortunate to have so noted a poet as a resident of our state. We mourn this great loss to our community.
Margaret Hunt
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
Philip Levine
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
Countee Cullen
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
John Keble
If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
David Allan Coe
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.
Jacques Maritain
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore
Michael was an amazing artist and poet. He wrote his feelings. He had such a difficult life. It was just him and his pen and paper.
Michele Jackson
We're all getting older. We should, the three of us, be playing these songs because, hey, the end is always near. Morrison was a poet, and above all, a poet wants his words heard.
Ray Manzarek
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
Countee Cullen
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
I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
August Kleinzahler
Springsteen is not a poet.
Dave Marsh
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
Lee Strasberg
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.
Richard Wilbur
I didn't start as a dialect poet, ... talked again and again about poetry.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poet in Greek means maker. It's the idea of making something that has never been made before.
Amanda Cunningham
At Holyrood's official opening ceremony, Scotland's Poet Laureate Edwin Morgan told us in his poem of the same name to 'Open the Doors!' and we are doing exactly that.
George Reid
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.
William Carlos Williams
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
Ambrose Bierce
He was a poet who serendipitously wandered into public life.
Michael Mccarthy
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
Mark Helprin
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
Richard Wilbur
Her mouth is a honey-blossom,No doubt, as the poet sings;But within her lips, the petals,Lurks a cruel bee that stings.
William Dean Howells
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
Jean Toomer
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
I guess we can all conclude we've lost a giant in the sense of the contribution he made to our state, ... He was a philosopher, a guide, a pilot, a poet, a visionary. ... His contribution is evident when every Alaskan receives a Permanent Fund dividend.
Frank Murkowski
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.
Robert Adamson
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
B. F. Skinner
Children/ when they ask you/ why your mama so funny/ say/ she is a poet/ she don't have no sense.
Lucille Clifton
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
Allen Tate
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Stephane Mallarme
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
James Russell Lowell
She is a poet of great social consciousness and social awareness. She confronts things that are troubling in our society.
Laura White
The simplest conception of the origin and plan of the Iliad must, we think, prove the most correct. It originated, doubtless, in that desire, which every great poet must especially feel, of revealing to his age forms of nobler beauty and heroism than dwell in the minds of those around him.
Jones Very
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words.
Johnny Pesky
Her poetry, which she uses to examine her deepest feelings, is beautifully crafted, She's developed very rapidly into a powerful poet.
Kate Kelly
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet.
Eugene Delacroix
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Emile Zola
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Vicente Aleixandre
In a town of writers, he really is our poet laureate.
Emmylou Harris
He really did live in two different worlds. He was real good at his job. He knew engineering. It came as second nature to him, and he always had a good job especially when he was with Mobile. But he was equally if not more adept as a poet.
Elliot Jacobowitz
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Edmond de Goncourt
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton
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