Poet Quotes - Page 6

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.