Poet Quotes - page 2

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. (Robert Frost)
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. View quote
W. H. Auden
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. View quote
W. H. Auden
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. View quote
W. H. Auden
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. View quote
G. H. Hardy
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. View quote
Robert Graves
All a poet can do today is warn. View quote
Wilfred Owen
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. View quote
Colette
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet ... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times. View quote
Louis Sullivan
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. (Jean Giraudoux)
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. View quote
William Shenstone
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. View quote
Bob Dylan
There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
... it is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. View quote
Karl Weierstrass
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet. View quote
Ogden Nash
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)
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The poet doesn't invent. He listens. View quote
Jean Cocteau