Poet Quotes - Page 30

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.

Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Scientist alone is true poet.

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

I am that merry wanderer of the night.