Quotes About Poet

Comme dit le poète, Achille est la moitié de mon âme.

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. from "She Does Not Love You

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.

Quando un rivoluzionario non è un poeta finisce per essere un dittatore o un burocrate, un traditore dei propri sogni...

Thich Nhat Hanh, the venerable and highly respected Vietnamese meditation teacher, poet, and peace activist, uses the image of cloudy apple juice settling in a glass to describe meditation. You just sit with whatever is present, even discomfort, anxiety, or confusion, with whatever is present, and the mind settles all by itself.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

Your life is a stage and you are the poet so pour your heart out, let them listen and be heard. Let the real you shine.

She has an astral quality, even something quite vatic. You grasp my meaning—the poet veering toward the status of priest.

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

A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse," she suggested cunningly. A stir of approval answered her. Mice are all for people being free, so that they too can be freed form their eternal task of cheering prisoners--so that they can stay snug at home, nibbling the family cheese, instead of sleeping out in damp straw on a diet of stale bread.

Penny Novack, a Pagan poet, once wrote that glimpses of the One could make her happy, awed, and excited, "but I can't imagine a religion based on it.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.