Poet Quotes
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
Orson F. Whitney
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
Eminem
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There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
Eavan Boland
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The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.
Sandra Cisneros
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We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.
Richard Feynman
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the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
Bayard Taylor
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When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
Norman MacCaig
