Poet Quotes

AKA: QuotesNSayings.net

Famous Quotes and Sayings

• Authors
• Picture Quotes
• Proverbs
• Professions
• Nationalities
• About
• Contact

Popular Authors

• Henry Miller
• Benjamin Franklin
• Pope Benedict XVI
• Vincent van Gogh
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Pablo Picasso
• Henry Ford
• Sir Isaac Newton
• E. E. Cummings
• Victor Hugo

• 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 jack assonance.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet

• No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

  William Temple

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet

• Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet.

  James Joyce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet

• I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Streets, Poet

• One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

  Graham Hawkes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet, Religious

• To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.

  Jennifer Megan Varnadore

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Poet
• 

  Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

  Heinrich Heine

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Like, Poet, Effect

• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Poet, Creator, Seems, Enough, Poor, Poverty, Blame

• A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet

• Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

  Jim Carroll

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet

• If poets were realistic, they wouldn’t be poets.

  Peter Davison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet

• No bad man can be a good poet.

  Boris Pasternak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Bad, Poet

• The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

  Paul Verlaine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet, Adventure

• I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

  Paul Dirac

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Writers And Writing, Poet, Poetry

• I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet, Pleasant, Confession

• I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

  George Murray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet, Difference, Books

• A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

  George Henry Lewes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeble, Poet

• The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn’t exist.

  Theophile Gautier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet

• We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

  E. M. Forster

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet, Statistician

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet, Write, Tragedy