Home / Topics / Poet Quotes

Poet Quotes

Browse 4287 quotes about Poet.

Poet Quotes

“People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.”

People Play Hands Water Numbers Darkness Poet Lovers Gray

Author:Wolfgang Borchert

“The poet is the complete lover of mankind.”

Mankind Poet Lovers

Author:Edith Sitwell

“The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.”

Knows Feels Persons Certain Poet Lovers Compulsion Reconcile

Author:Babette Deutsch

“The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.”

“You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.”

Needs God Three Enemy Poet Lovers

Author:Jose Bergamin

“When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.”

Should Persons Poetry Company Poet Lovers Clothes Sight Wave Journalist Thieves Publishers

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.”

Age Lying Poet Lovers Stronger Useless Power Of Love

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.”

Made Born Poet Flower Lovers Musician Painter True Lovers

Book:An Island Garden

Source: An Island Garden

“That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.”

Writing Reason Moments Universe Poet Lovers Fame Essentials Communion After Death Fusion

Author:Anais Nin

“But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.”

World Common This World Poet Lovers Strings Making Love Alaska

Book:The Belle of Bowling Green

Source: The Belle of Bowling Green

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

Imagination Love You Poet Lovers My Imagination Carpe Diem Lunatic Compact Creative Imagination Imagination And Creativity Midsummer Imagination Creativity Midsummer Night's Dream Mid Summer Nights Dream Imagination And Dreams Imagination And Reality Theseus Dream Act

Author:William Shakespeare