Poet Quotes

• 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
  • Men
  • Imagination
  • Imagine

• We're all getting older. We should, the three of us, be playing these songs because, hey, the end is always near. Morrison was a poet, and above all, a poet wants his words heard.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Words
  • Heard
  • Morrison

• My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Name

• 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
  • Together
  • Stop
  • Identity

• The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Love
  • Words
  • Knots

• People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Success
  • Poet

• The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Bad
  • Poet
  • Where

• Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

  

  David Markson
  • Encounter
  • Sexual
  • Spent

• I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Facts
  • Minds
  • Poem

• The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins...

  

  Allen Tate
  • Poet
  • Side
  • Wins

• The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Human
  • Poet
  • Tiger

• A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Music
  • Suffering
  • Creature

• I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.

  

  Lorde
  • Different
  • Mom
  • Poetry

• I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Always
  • Poet
  • Reminds

• Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Present
  • Literature
  • Principle

• We need help, the poet reckoned.

  

  Edward Dorn
  • Help
  • Need
  • Reckoned

• A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Read
  • Poet
  • Public Figure

• I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.

  

  Arthur Honegger
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Musician

• It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Poet
  • Interested
  • First Words

• I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Different
  • Wish
  • Playwright

• The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Poet
  • Presents
  • Carriage Of Rhythm

• So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Life
  • Up
  • Interesting

• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

  

  Aulus Gellius
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

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