Poet Quotes

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. (Salvador Dalí)
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. View quote
Plato
God is the perfect poet. View quote
Robert Browning
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. View quote
Bob Dylan
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. View quote
Christopher Morley
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. View quote
Wallace Stevens
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. View quote
Woody Allen
The poet...nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. View quote
Philip Sidney
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Always be a poet, even in prose. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. View quote
Émile Zola
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. View quote
David Carradine
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. View quote
John Updike
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. (William Hazlitt)
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. View quote
Thornton Wilder
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. View quote
Robert Frost