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Author Quote Preview Lascelles Abercrombie No poet will ever take the... Lascelles Abercrombie The epic poet collaborates with... Lascelles Abercrombie The epic poet has behind him... Lascelles Abercrombie With several different kinds of... Robert Adamson Francis Webb is easily our... Vicente Aleixandre Poetry is a succession of... Woody Allen As the poet said, 'Only God... Archie R. Ammons The poet exposes himself to... Archie R. Ammons That's a wonderful change that's... Archie R. Ammons Even if you walk exactly the... David Amram We met with the poet Frank... Aristophanes These impossible women! How they... W. H. Auden It's a sad fact about our... W. H. Auden A poet is, before anything... W. H. Auden A poet is a professional maker... W. H. Auden A poet can write about a... W. H. Auden It is a sad fact about... W. H. Auden Every American poet feels that... W. H. Auden No poet or novelist wishes he... Bob Balaban My dad was the baby. When... Amelia Barr But the lover's power is the... John Barton The poet must decide not to... Charles Baudelaire Always be a poet, even in... Charles Baudelaire If the poet has pursued a... Charles Baudelaire There exist only three respectable... Charles Baudelaire The poet enjoys the incomparable... Pierre Charles Baudleaire There exist only three beings... Ludwig van Beethoven A great poet is the most... Vissarion Belinsky Do not worry about the... Jose Bergamin The most original sin is not... Harold Bloom I have never believed that the... Ella R. Bloor I think Whitman more than any... Niels Bohr When it comes to atoms... Thomas Bowdler I acknowledge Shakespeare to be... Kenneth Branagh In the hands of a great... Marlon Brando An actor is at most a... Harold Brodkey If you like to read, sometimes... Joseph Brodsky For the poet the credo or... Joseph Brodsky Every individual ought to know... James Broughton Being identified as a poet in... James Broughton A born poet knows in his... Robert Browning God is the perfect poet. Luis Bunuel A paranoiac like a poet, is... Thomas Campbell And muse on Nature with a... David Carradine If you cannot be a poet... Lewis Cass Only the most acute and active... Michael N. Castle Maya Angelou, the famous African... Edwin Hubbel Chapin Poetry is the utterance of... Charlie Chaplin A tramp, a gentleman, a poet... Rene Char A poet must leave traces of... Lord Chesterfield I am very sure that any... John Ciardi You don't have to suffer to... John Ciardi What has any poet to trust... Marcus Tullius Cicero No poet or orator has ever... Emile M. Cioran Anyone can escape into sleep... John Cleveland I am no Poet here; my... William Kingdon Clifford There is no scientific discoverer... Jean Cocteau The poet doesn't invent. He... Jean Cocteau The worst tragedy for a poet... Jean Cocteau Children and lunatics cut the... Jean Cocteau A true poet does not bother... Jean Cocteau The poet is a liar who... Jean Cocteau The poet never asks for... Jean Cocteau Take a commonplace, clean it... David Allan Coe If there ever was a poet... Samuel Taylor Coleridge A poet ought not to pick... Samuel Taylor Coleridge No man was ever yet a... Sidonie Gabrielle Colette To a poet, silence is an... Alex Cox Shakespeare, who is probably the... Samuel McChord Crothers A prose writer gets tired of... e. e. cummings If a poet is anybody, he... Thomas D'Evelyn Russell Baker writes columns as... Edward Dahlberg The bad poet is a toady... Richard J. Daley We are proud to have with... Salvador Dali The first man to compare the... Rebecca H. Davis You will find the poet who... Peter Davison And there are a lot more... Peter Davison The relation between a poet... Jeffery Deaver But one does not make living... James Dickey A poet is someone who stands... Mark Van Doren The job of the poet is... Rita Dove I was appointed Poet Laureate... Rita Dove People write me from all over... Rita Dove It's the combination of the... Rita Dove There are distinct duties of a... Rita Dove Being Poet Laureate made me... Edward Dowden For a poet to depict a... John Drinkwater Great men are rare, poets are... John Drinkwater The musician - if he be a... John Drinkwater The poet's perfect expression is... John Drinkwater To know anything of a poet... John Drinkwater When the poet makes his... Douglas Dunn A poet's cultural baggage and... Bob Dylan A poem is a naked person... Bob Dylan I consider myself a poet first... Bob Dylan I think a poet is anybody... Max Eastman A poet in history is divine... T. S. Eliot As things are, and as... T. S. Eliot Any poet, if he is to... T. S. Eliot The bad poet is usually... T. S. Eliot The business of the poet is... Paul Engle But maybe it's up in the... Paul Engle Verse is not written, it is... Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly risking absurdity and death... Leslie Fiedler Anybody in the next centuries... Leslie Fiedler I admire Ginsberg as a poet... Leslie Fiedler I never met anybody in my... Ian Hamilton Finlay But you have to understand... Robert Fitzgerald In a way you can feel... Robert Fitzgerald Is encouragement what the poet... Gustave Flaubert The true poet for me is... E. M. Forster We are not concerned with the... Janet Frame They think I'm going to be... Sigmund Freud Everywhere I go I find that... Robert Frost To be a poet is a... Robert Frost A poet never takes notes. You... Jose Ortega y Gasset In order to master the unruly... Jose Ortega y Gasset The poet begins where the man... Theophile Gautier The word poet literally means... Theophile Gautier You do not become a critic... Kahlil Gibran Death most resembles a prophet... Andre Gide Therefore" is a word the poet... Allen Ginsberg Poetry is not an expression of... Jean Giraudoux There is no better way of... Jean Giraudoux We all know here that the... William E. Gladstone Mediocrity is now, as formerly... Oliver Goldsmith Could a man live by it... Edmond de Goncourt A poet is a man who... Robert Graves To be a poet is a... Robert Graves Never use the word 'audience... Franz Grillparzer When the theater gates open, a... Thom Gunn It was difficult being a... Marilyn Hacker The woman poet must be either... Edith Hamilton None but a poet can write... Godfrey Harold Hardy A mathematician, like a painter... G. H. Hardy A mathematician, like a painter... Thomas Hardy My opinion is that a poet... Nathaniel Hawthorne Nobody, I think, ought to read... Helen Hayes Only the poet can look beyond... William Hazlitt The player envies only the... Lafcadio Hearn The Western poet and writer of... Lafcadio Hearn The time of illusion, then, is... Ben Hecht I have written a raucous... Anthony Hecht There's not a good poet I... Heinrich Heine Like a great poet, Nature... Mark Helprin Of course, you would have to... Ernest Hemingway Pound's crazy. All poets are... Beth Henley But here's the thing: what you... Hesiod Potter is jealous of potter... Horace The power of daring anything... Robert E. Howard Never the less, at the age... William H. Hunt There is no more reason why... William A. Henry III A poet laureate of adolescent... Muhammad Iqbal I have never considered myself... Muhammad Iqbal I have never considered myself... Charles Ives If a poet knows more about... Max Jacob The poet's expression of joy... Randall Jarrell A poet is a man who... Karl Jaspers To decide to become a... Tahar Ben Jelloun I am a guest of the... Eyvind Johnson From the throes of inspiration... Eyvind Johnson A poet or prose narrator... June Jordan The music of language became... Steven T. Katz The poet laureate of England... John Keats With a great poet the sense... John Keble As fire kindled by fire, so... Ken Kesey Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous... Soren Kierkegaard What is a poet? An unhappy... Kenneth Koch As I look over my work... Kenneth Koch I never thought of myself as... Kenneth Koch I wonder if I ever thought... Sofia Kovalevskaya It is impossible to be a... James Laughlin I think there is a great... James Laughlin I think we will always have... James Laughlin Of course a poem is a... James Laughlin Then, of course, there are... Alvin Lee We used to play the... Lotte Lehmann The music is the shining path... John Lennon My role in society, or any... Jonathan Lethem The more film I watch, the... Philip Levine It's ironic that while I was... Philip Levine But I'm too old to be... Philip Levine There'll always be working people... Philip Levine For sure I once thought of... Philip Levine I was very lucky to have... George H. Lewes A man may be variously... Sinclair Lewis Whatever poet, orator or sage... Abraham Lincoln There is another old poet... James Russell Lowell The eye is the notebook of... Thomas B. Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a... Thomas B. Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a... Norman MacCaig And in a way, that's been... Norman MacCaig And some poets are far better... Norman MacCaig When I talk of hearing a... Ella Maillart One travels so as to learn... Aristide Maillol I express myself in sculpture... Stephane Mallarme The pure work implies the... Ray Manzarek Jim wanted to be known as... Ray Manzarek Jim, as just a spoken poet... Jacques Maritain The poet knows himself only on... Abraham Maslow A musician must make music, an... W. Somerset Maugham The writer of prose can only... Bryant H. McGill The talent of a true writer... Roger McGough Yes, you can feel very alone... Yehudi Menuhin The violinist is that peculiarly... Yehudi Menuhin The violinist must possess the... George Meredith The man of science is nothing... Donald G. Mitchell Married or unmarried, young or... Eugenio Montale The poet does not know - often... Eugenio Montale The poet does not know and... Henry Moore A sculptor is a person who... Marianne Moore It is quite cruel that a... Robert Morgan Philip Larkin has a tough... Robert Morgan The Black Mountain poet I like... Christopher Morley The courage of the poet is... Paul Muldoon Frost isn't exactly despised but... George Murray In my opinion, Al Moritz may... Alfred de Musset Each memorable verse of a true... Vladimir Nabokov A writer should have the... Howard Nemerov I liked the kid who wrote... Howard Nemerov When Robert Frost was alive, I... Howard Nemerov I've never read a political... Stevie Nicks Everything on this record is... Friedrich Nietzsche A subject for a great poet... Krist Novoselic Theodore Roethke was a poet I... Sharon Olds Every poet I know - although... Laurence Olivier I'd like people to remember me... George Orwell Joyce is a poet and also... Wilfred Owen A Poem does not grow by... Wilfred Owen I was a boy when I... Wilfred Owen All a poet can do today... Wilfred Owen All a poet can do today... Boris Pasternak No bad man can be a... James Payn It has often struck me that... Ruth Pitter Are you really going to see... Plato At the touch of love everyone... Plato Every heart sings a song... Edgar Allan Poe The generous Critic fann'd the... Philip Pullman For a long time I thought... Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is the revelation of a... Salvatore Quasimodo An exact poetic duplication of... Salvatore Quasimodo The poet's other readers are... Salvatore Quasimodo As the poet has expected, the... Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is also the physical... Salvatore Quasimodo From the night, his solitude... Salvatore Quasimodo He passes from lyric to epic... Salvatore Quasimodo A poet clings to his own... Salvatore Quasimodo Thus, the poet's word is... Salvatore Quasimodo According to them, the poet is... Salvatore Quasimodo The poet's spoken discourse often... Salvatore Quasimodo The poet does not fear death... Salvatore Quasimodo The antagonism between the poet... Salvatore Quasimodo The Resistance is a moral... Raymond Queneau When Ulysses hears his own... Carl Rakosi I fell in love with social... John C. Ransom Too much is demanded by the... Henry Reed Dream study impacts culture. We... Laura Riding To a poet the mere making... Rainer Maria Rilke If your daily life seems poor... Salman Rushdie A poet's work is to name... George Sand He who draws noble delights... George Santayana The degree in which a poet's... Jose Saramago I am a better novelist than... Nathalie Sarraute One can't write for all... Maximilian Schell I think there's a poet who... Franz Schubert Why should the composer be... James Schuyler The aim of the poet, or... William Shakespeare The lunatic, the lover, and... Karl Shapiro The good poet sticks to his... Percy Bysshe Shelley A poet is a nightingale, who... William Shenstone Every good poet includes a... Robert E. Sherwood To be able to write a... Edith Sitwell The poet speaks to all men... Stevie Smith All poetry has to do is... Huston Smith Poetry is a special use of... Wallace Stevens A poet looks at the world... Wallace Stevens A poet looks at the world... Wallace Stevens The poet is the priest of... Wallace Stevens The philosopher proves that the... Anne Stevenson Blake has always been a... Anne Stevenson I think a poet, like a... Anne Stevenson Peter Lucas and I live in... Michael Stipe I'm tired of being this solemn... Lytton Strachey But Racine's extraordinary powers as... Mark Strand I think the best American... Lee Strasberg A great actor is independent... Wislawa Szymborska I started earning a living as... Torquato Tasso None merits the name of... Allen Tate So the poet, who wants to... Allen Tate In a manner of speaking, the... Allen Tate According to its doctors, my... William Temple No one ever was a great... Richard Thompson There's a part of me that... James Thurber There is something about a... Mary Timony I'm much more of a musician... Jean Toomer I am not less poet; I... Lionel Trilling The poet may be used as... Lionel Trilling The poet is in command of... Ivan Turgenev A poet must be a psychologist... John Updike But for a few phrases from... Paul Valery A man is a poet if... Simone Veil The poet produces the beautiful... Paul Verlaine The poet is a madman lost... Leonardo da Vinci The poet ranks far below the... Diane Wakoski American poetry, like American painting... Diane Wakoski From reading a previous answer... Diane Wakoski I think that great poetry is... Diane Wakoski So, I've never been politically... Orson Welles A film is never really good... Walt Whitman The proof of a poet is... Richard Wilbur It is true that the poet... Richard Wilbur To this congress the poet... Oscar Wilde A poet can survive everything... Thornton Wilder I would love to be the... Edmund Wilson I am not quite a poet... August Wilson I first got involved in... Tom Wolfe There has been a time on... Beatrice Wood A rich poet from Harvard has... Virginia Woolf The poet gives us his essence... Virginia Woolf Who shall measure the hat and... Virginia Woolf Who shall measure the heat and... Frank Lloyd Wright Every great architect is - necessarily... William Butler Yeats I think it better that in... Yevgeny Yevtushenko A poet's autobiography is his... Emile Zola There are two men inside the...

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