Poet Quotes - page 3

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. (Jean Cocteau)
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved. View quote
Gregory Corso
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. View quote
Lee Strasberg
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. View quote
John Adams
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. View quote
William James
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; that constitute his ideal audience and his better self. View quote
Richard Wilbur
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. View quote
James Dickey
The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired. (Paul Éluard)
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms. View quote
Wallace Stevens
For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Was ever poet so trusted before. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To a poet nothing can be useless. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn. View quote
Samuel Johnson
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. View quote
E. M. Forster
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A great poet is greater than any king. View quote
Robert E. Howard
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper. (E. O. Wilson)
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations. View quote
Robert Browning
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. View quote
Abraham Maslow
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making. View quote
E. E. Cummings