“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
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“Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.”
Source: Memoirs of Celebrated Characters
Source: Notes towards the Definition of Culture
“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Source: Selected Letters
“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.”
“The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.”
“I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.”
Source: Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers
“Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.”
Source: Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims
“A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.”
“Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.”
“The true poet dreams being awake.”
Source: Essays of Elia
Source: Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws
“There were poets before Homer.”
Source: Brutus, with an English translation
“I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
“Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.”
Source: Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays
“Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.”
Source: The Poems of Bayard Taylor
Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems
Source: The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography
“Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.”
“He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.”
Source: Poems
Source: We: Introduction by Will Self
“A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.”
“These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.”
“How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.”
“A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Vol.2: Top English Literature