Poet Quotes - Page 14

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

Don't send a poet to London.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.