Quotes About Poet

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

If I could write the beauty of your eyesAnd in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'this poet lies! Such heaven never touched earthly faces

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

Even when the poet seems most himself… he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

Most joyful the Poet be;It is through him that all men see.

He wouldn't perform without a recording now, she was certain, like a poet working in the oral tradition who had been contaminated by the advent of the recording device and so insisted that all improvisations be saved for posterity.

Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an Angel, but talked like poor Poll