Quotes and Sayings About Poet

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Men #Saint #Poet

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
-- A. R. Ammons

#Risk #Poet #Said

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Triumph #Conquer #Poet

Poets are born, not paid.
-- Addison Mizner

#Poetry #Poet #Born

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
-- Al Alvarez

#Nervous #Poet #Preference

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Garden #Needs #Poet

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Hyde #Human Nature #Poet

A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Party #Poetry #Poet

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
-- Alexander Brome

#Life And Death #Poet #Wit