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Poet Quotes
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. - Eugenio Montale Quotes
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. - Gustave Flaubert Quotes
The poet doesnt invent. He listens. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. - William Shenstone Quotes
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. - Robert Frost Quotes
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and Ill die like a poet. - Bob Dylan Quotes
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. - John Ciardi Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. - Christopher Morley Quotes
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
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 Quotes
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
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. - G K Chesterton Quotes
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination. - David Allan Coe Quotes
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. - John Adams Quotes
Its the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. - Rita Dove Quotes
The poet is the priest of the invisible. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. - Simone Veil Quotes
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven. - Charles Ives Quotes
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman Quotes
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. - Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. - Alfred De Musset Quotes
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and Im back to being the poet I always thought I was. - Stevie Nicks Quotes
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. - Ivan Turgenev Quotes
Only one English poet of our own day, and that a minor one, has attempted to make the poem of four lines a specialty - that is William Watson. - Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling. - Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
All a poet can do today is warn. - Wilfred Owen Quotes
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
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