Poet Quotes - page 4

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. (William Congreve)

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

T. S. Eliot

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

William Faulkner

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Bob Dylan

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

William Blake

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

William Shakespeare

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

Karl Jaspers

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. (Stéphane Mallarmé)

Call it not vain they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

Walter Scott

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Walt Whitman

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

Plato

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

Salvatore Quasimodo

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

Salvatore Quasimodo

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Salvatore Quasimodo

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Salvatore Quasimodo

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. (Frances Mayes)

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

Charles Williams

The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valéry once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.

Daniel Dennett

The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.

Eugenio Montale

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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