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

Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
-- Alexander Pope

#Causes #Muse #Poet

Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
-- Alexander Pope

#Men #Dinner #Poet

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

#Mind #Age #Poet

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Tadpoles #Frogs #Poet

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

#Musician #Poet #Possession

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

#Grateful #Poet #Filmmaker

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?
-- Alice Munro

#Perfect #Poet

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,
-- Alister E. McGrath

#Teaching #Virtue #Poet

Scientist alone is true poet.
-- Allen Ginsberg

#Poet #Scientist

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
-- Allen Tate

#Men #Way #Poet

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

#Talking #Knowing #Poet

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.
-- Allison Hedge Coke

#Thinking #Poet #Curious

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
-- Amiri Baraka

#Warrior #World #Poet

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

#Lasts #Tradition #Poet

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

#Literature #Recognition #Poet

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

#Science #Poet #Scientist

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams...
-- Anais Nin

#Dream #Poet #Walks

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
-- Andrew Motion

#Wordsworth #Poet #Admire

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?
-- Ann Demeulemeester

#Black #Imagine #Poet

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
-- Anne Carson

#Gertrude #Poet #Difficult

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
-- Anne Sexton

#Saint #Poet #Moderation