Quotes About Poet

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever. We are in the Chinese astrology of dogs, and we are forever snapping at each other.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

Sport in itself has this power. If you are a poet or a singer, people gravitate. I may not be in the same category, but I will make a comparison with Bob Marley. So it isn't just cricket where social commentary plays a huge part.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

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