Poet Quotes

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

Leonard Cohen kept his Jew name. He's so cool. It's too bad he died.

I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.