Quotes About Poet

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather's, and I still carry it around with me.

You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.

As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.

Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.

I think of the Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati every day, and he is an inspiration in my musical creations.

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.

At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.

I am a poet, and I speak poetically.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.

I'm Dominique Crenn. I'm a chef, entrepreneur, artist, poet, human being. I have three restaurants in San Francisco: Atelier Crenn, Bar Crenn and Petit Crenn.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote a poem on the abdication of King Charles III or about the sex life of the Royals... anybody who knew my work would know I'm not a contender.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.

One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.

Jose Marti, known as 'the Apostle of Cuban Independence,' was an influential poet, journalist, and political theorist who became a symbol for the Cuban people's bid for independence. The concepts of freedom, liberty, and self-determination feature prominently in his work.