Home / Topics / Poet Quotes

Poet Quotes

Browse 4287 quotes about Poet.

Poet Quotes

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

Poetry Found Emotion Poet Poetry Is Great Poet Writing Poetry Great Poetry Best Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets Greatest Poetry Lump In The Throat

Author:Robert Frost

“Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.”

Art Soul Natural Emotion Study Poet Faults Impulse Melody Sincerity Composer Irresistible

Book:Poets of America

Source: Poets of America

“Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.”

Kind Soul Seems Imagination Emotion Poet Paint Extraordinary Enthusiasm Height

Book:Saggi critici

Source: Saggi critici

“The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.”

World Littles Reality Lasts Poetry Emotion Poet Focused Lovely Bitter Resorts Finding Peace

Book:Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

“Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.”

Sometimes Life Is Emotion Quality Our Lives Poet Succeed Fixed Steel Vocabulary Quality Of Life Life Is Like Rendering

Author:Laura Huxley

“Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one.”

“Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.”

Kind Facts Light Poetry Emotion Objects Particular Color Poet Landscape Sensations

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.”

Men Emotion Vision Subjects Poet Prophet Solitary Dominion Herds Thoughts And Emotions Solitary Man

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.”

Poetry Effort Emotion Written Poet Greed Useless Excess Zeal

Author:Anne Sexton

“The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.”

Heart Poetry Passion Emotion Poet Fortune Affection Warm Charm Over It Sentiments Sublime Lively Disdain Love And Friendship Magnanimity

Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will stay forever. The truth of the emotion of the poem remains, even if the particular truth of the poet changes.”

Ifs Writing Mean Doe Feelings Emotion Forever Particular Poet Truth Is Remains

Author:Denise Duhamel

“Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world.”

World Culture Imagination Emotion Modern Poet Proud Shining Glorious Sentiments Italian

Author:Roberto Benigni

“The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.”

Emotion Creative Fire Conditions Poet Crave Baptized Creative Power

Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses

Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”