Quotes and Sayings About Poet
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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 -
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 -
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
-- Abraham Cowley -
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 -
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
-- Aldo Leopold -
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
-- Aldous Huxley -
A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
-- Alexander Brome -
Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
-- Alexander Pope -
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
-- Alexander Pope -
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.
-- Ali Liebegott -
Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?
-- Alice Munro -
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,
-- Alister E. McGrath -
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
-- Allen Tate -
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
-- Allen Tate -
I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.
-- Allison Hedge Coke -
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
-- Amiri Baraka -
Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.
-- Amy Lowell -
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
-- Amy Lowell -
Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.
-- Anais Nin -
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
-- Andrew Motion -
Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?
-- Ann Demeulemeester -
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
-- Anne Carson -
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
-- Anne Sexton
