Quotes About Poet

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

My mind is a peaceful poet to itself.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent.

A poet has a sacred duty. He has to hear unsung songs and see unseen beauty.

A poet adds the awe factor to our ordinary perceptions.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.