Poet Quotes

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Charlie Chaplin
Lonely Poet Gentleman Hopeful Dreamer Adventure Fellow Always Tramp Romance
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Plato
Heart Song Poet Wish Lover Incomplete Every Back Everyone Those Find Touch Until Sing Another Becomes Always Sings Who Every Heart
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. Soren Kierkegaard
Beautiful Music Heart Unhappy Poet Cries Sighs Anguish Poetry Over Beautiful Music Like Pass Sound His Person Lips Formed Them Who Whose Profound
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. Rainer Maria Rilke
Life Daily You Blame Yourself Poet Poverty Enough Seems Poetry Call Poor Forth Riches Your Creator Daily Life
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. John Lennon
People Reflection Try Poet Leader Society Tell Feel How Preacher Role Any Artist Us Express
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thoughts Light Signs Poet Feelings Dancer Pantomime Musician Neither Fine Phrases Shadow Cast Write Make Am Nor Artistic Cannot Painter Express Tones
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solitude Darkness Poet Own Sweet Poetry Cheer Sounds Sings Who
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Death Poet Own High Constantly Above High Wire Risking Wire He Absurdity Heads Like Performs Audience Making Climbs His Whenever Rhyme
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Sinclair Lewis
Age Old Poet Whatever Orator Old Age Say Sage Still May
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. Abraham Maslow
Music Peace Poet Musician Must Write He Make Himself Ultimately Artist Paint
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. Aristotle
Words Language Thought Rare Three Poet Other Imitate Ought Must Objects Vehicle Like Terms Said Metaphors Were Current Any Artist May Being Either Painter Expression Things Necessity
There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters. Robert Burns
Welfare Poet Country Singing Honour Alive Scarcely Daughters Higher Sons Am Than Anything Which Her Enjoyment
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. Robert Green Ingersoll
Truth Teacher School Church Will Poet Blessed Become Every Philanthropist Philosopher Dream Clergyman Until Cathedral Becomes Real Brave Patriot Then Thinkers Honest University
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden
Love Language Poet Before Else Poetry Passionately Person Anything Anything Else Who
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' Abraham Lincoln
Truth Time Truth Is Remember Old Poet Daughter Name Another Said Who Now Whose
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
Life Poet Though Draws Poetry Delights Never He Written Noble True True Poet Line His Sentiments Who
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux
Truth Nature Law Better Poet Lawyer Imagination Way Better Way Study Freely Exercising Than Ever Interpreted
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. Salvador Dali
Man Woman Poet First Idiot Young Rose Possibly Cheeks Obviously Repeat Young Woman Compare
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Time Great Man Poet Philosopher Without Same Same Time Being Ever Profound
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. Robert Frost
Love You Poet Take Never Takes Never Take Affair Love Affair Notes
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. Edgar Allan Poe
World Poet Fire Critic Admire Generous Taught Reason
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. Frank Lloyd Wright
Time Day Great Age Architecture Poet Every Must Architect He His Original Necessarily Interpreter
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this? John Muir
Nature Value Poet Power Beauty Every Tree Waving Top Sung Magic Magic Wand Marvelous Dell Call Knows Devout Still Pine Hand Scotch Mountain Wand
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great Great Deal Poet Think Ought Statues Find More Poetry Highest Nobody Merit Pictures Look Read Deal Than Artist Cannot Them Who Expressed Actually
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. Steven Seagal
Great Poet Warrior Scholar Also Any Artist
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again. Maya Angelou
Success Work Good Day Freedom Morning You Wake Up Achieve Job Free Long Poet Fighting Christian All Day Muslim Kind Some Struggling Buddhist Towards Over Like Still Go Wake Up Done Being Again Next Next Morning Zen Level Start Jew Sleep
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