Poet Quotes
Jess C. Scott
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
4590 Dorianne Laux
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.
4021 Laura Goode
Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful
3576 Arti Honrao
I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.
2595 Philip Larkin
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
2728 Philip Larkin
Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
2785 Laura Goode
If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.
1382 Alexander Pope
Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.
4653 Virginia Woolf
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
4509 Munia Khan
A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.
3717 Plato
The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too.
2789 Raghad Khalil
as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?
1590 Anne Carson
I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing.
4166 Michael Bassey Johnson
If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!
2498 Charlotte Eriksson
And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.
2054 D. Antoinette Foy
I am in awe of flowers.
Not because of their colors,
but because even though they
have dirt in their roots,
they still grow.
They still bloom.
4857 D. Antoinette Foy
My heart's scripture tastes
foreign in the mouths of
cowards and on the tongues of
those who have never breathed in
the moon and breathed out the world.
4995 Álvaro De Campos
Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.
1438 D. Antoinette Foy
I wear the universe backwards.
I imagine putting stars in my
coffee, and sugar in the sky.
I imagine going fishing in clouds,
and watching the sun hide
behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing
with my imagination to even tip toe
with reality for a second.
They say I'm going mad.
They're right.
3784 D. Antoinette Foy
The core of your
true self
is never lost.
Let go of all the
pretending and
the becoming
you've done just
to belong.
Curl up with your
rawness and come home.
You don't have to
find yourself;
you just have to
let yourself in.
3920 D. Antoinette Foy
The sky never falls with the rain.
It is never weighed down by all that
it carries. It takes all of its anchors
and turns them into stars.
Learn from this.
2532 D. Antoinette Foy
Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.
4116 D. Antoinette Foy
Life is so beautiful and so short
that anything that makes me feel
less than too much is nothing at all.
4048 Carol Hovsepian
Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.
1281 D. Antoinette Foy
Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.
4664 Ian Fleming
I am a poet in deeds-not often in words.
1094 Lenore Kandel
Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.
1023 Eric Gamalinda
He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.
2484 Thomas Aquinas
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
3761 Mary Karr
it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.
3169 Rabih Alameddine
Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-
a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.
2326 Nora Roberts
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.
2853 Bazil Patel
The most magical thing I have come across is a beautiful face with a beautiful heart and it's you❤ ❤
4652 Archibald MacLeish
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
4687 Socrates
God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.
3999 Socrates
God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods...
3086 Rick Riordan
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.
3503 Allen Ginsberg
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
2527 Allen Ginsberg
If I had a soul I sold it
for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my essence
Allen Ginsberg warns you
dont follow my path
to extinction
4759 Walt Whitman
I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
1965 Lang Leav
She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
For she is his poet,
And he is her poetry.
3657 George Eliot
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion-a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
3355 Luke Davies
I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act.
We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin.”
-In the yellow time of pollen
4430 Omar Khayyam
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n,
and strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light
3441 Dorianne Laux
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.
4998 Melissa Lee-Houghton
I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.
4543 Rainer Maria Rilke
we want it visible
to show
when even the most
visible joy
will reveal itself
only when we have
transformed it within.
there’s nowhere, my love, the
world can exist
expect within.
3265 Richelle E. Goodrich
A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity.
4382 Philip Larkin
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
3324 Philip Larkin
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
3832 Nate Spears
Live for everything, or die for nothing
1167 Nate Spears
No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid.
3963 Alysha Speer
When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn’t get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do?
1535 E.B. White
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
2326 Oscar Sparrow
Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies
3486 Melissa Lee-Houghton
ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.
1567 Nate Spears
Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build.
4869 Charlotte Eriksson
Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.
4988 Sara Jones
When you told me I didn't love you
I simply thought how would you know
For I remembered the spaces between your fingers
And the crease between your eyes
How dare you tell me
I never thought of you as mine.
3555 Tsegaye Gebre Medhin
I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.
3766 Socrates
For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.
4946 Plato
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
4656 Arzum Uzun
In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.
3230 Gayle Forman
That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.
1517 Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
1303 Dave Matthes
Hemingway is overrated,
Twain is even more lost at sea,
And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,
Where both her whispers and her screams,
Are born.
Pour another glass,
Beer, wine, whiskey,
I don't care,
So long as its wisdom is sharp,
And it tells lies instead of promises.
3006 Sylvia Plath
Seré una de las pocas poetisas en el mundo completamente feliz de ser mujer, no una de esas amargadas y frustradas, retorcidas imitadoras de hombres, que en su mayoría acaban destrozadas
3065 Oksana Rus
In the coastal strains of music full of lovers hopes and dreams upon, wearing only warmth, fresh scent of the ocean and delightfully joyous smile...I look deep in your dark gloomy ochi 'cross the oceans and lands between us, am aware by sweet memories your heart is tortured...and you are for eternity mine...
3285 Rainer Maria Rilke
for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?
1425 Pietros Maneos
All that really matters is
to feel alive,
if only for a single moment –
to feel in Intense Sensation
that our existence is not an endless repetition
of sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.
2408 Dave Matthes
In the hours waking,
when we're still all still,
and you can hear the floorboards creaking,
and you can feel the shades blow in,
the night we slept with,
we'll never kiss like that again.
Our lips, will sever,
our memories, will dissipate,
and our shadows will be swallowed by the sky.
2473 Oksana Rus
Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude...
3326 Oksana Rus
The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold...
1020 Joseph Devlin
There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is - the poet is born, not made.
2532 Delano Johnson
I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream.
3226 Delano Johnson
A good woman comes in all shapes and colors.
When you find her, adore her.
3157 Delano Johnson
I promised her that I would never kiss and tell, but I have to tell someone about my dreams and fairytales. So I’m telling you that I kissed her.
1915 Delano Johnson
I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.
3638 Delano Johnson
You are my reality, fantasy, daydream, fairytale, music, more than the princess in Cinderella; you are much more than a traditional myth.
1510 Delano Johnson
If I cannot fix your broken heart can I put mine in its place, because these stars are not enough, and all the money in the world does not equal your worth.
1659 Delano Johnson
Romance her, enhance her, desire her, put her first.
4690 Delano Johnson
I must find you. So I travel to the depths of hell and conquer perverse monsters and repulsive demons and the deceitful vicious devil himself to find the truth.
1245 Delano Johnson
Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.
4386 Delano Johnson
The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.
4036 Delano Johnson
Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.
1271 Delano Johnson
Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.
2736 Delano Johnson
Your love is like star sky showers and magenta unicorns.
2503 Rainer Maria Rilke
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
2095 Tyrtaeus
...Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.
2115 J.G. Ballard
Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?
3093 Piet Hein
After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin.
Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.
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