Poet Quotes

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Love, Everyone, Touch

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Truth, Remember

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Heart, Find, Wish

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Survive

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

Society, Try, Leader

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

Lover, Lunatic, Compact

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran

Death, Honor, Stranger

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, God, After

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost

Love, Takes, Affair

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost

Condition, Profession

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

Lonely, Adventure, Gentleman

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan

Live, Die, Second

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.
Soren Kierkegaard

Music, Beautiful, Heart

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

Music, Peace, Write

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

Person, Naked, Poem

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe

Fire, Reason, Taught

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

Himself, Call, Anybody

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

Life, Yourself, Daily

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest Hemingway

Crazy, Put, Poets

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Age, Time, Great

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles

Good, Film, Head

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen

God, Hard, Said

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud

Find, Before, Everywhere

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot

Life, Time, Poetry

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

Bad, Conscious, Ought

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Helen Hayes

Whole, Picture, Beyond

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Niels Bohr

Poetry, Used, Language

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot

Different, Year, Emotions

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden

Love, Person, Before

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