Poet Quotes

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

A poet must learn to wage war.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

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.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!