Poet Quotes

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona. Jeff Bridges
Music Great You People Wonderful Poet Think Way Favorite Out He Puts Know Most Also Singer-Songwriter Him Terrific Doing His Waits Persona Artists Being Certainly Figuring Tom Whom Tom Waits Actor
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. Salman Rushdie
You Poet Somewhere Isolation Else Melancholy Somewhere Else Wishing Chekhov Were Than Where
Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people. If I am a painter, poet, composer, I am not really dependent on others. Akshaye Khanna
People I Am Insecurity Poet Feeling Field Other Others Composer Because Am Person Dependent Really Painter Actor Why
A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie
Work World Poet Argument Sides Frauds Point Shape Take Name Going Stop Start Sleep
My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor. John Carter Cash
World Simplicity Glasses Humor Poet Spirituality Saw Through He Unique Dad
Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend. John Cooper Clarke
You Job Poet Idleness Go Friend Anything Necessarily
Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time. No I.D.
Time Strong Value Poet Lyrical Having More Songs Over Longevity Like Him His Improving Being
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. Umberto Eco
Love Writing Poet Poetry Write He Remembers Incapable
I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet. Kate Nash
Thought Poet Lyricist Had Allowed Songwriter Feel Like Intelligent Really
By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work and I plummeted. John Cooper Clarke
Work Me Punk Poet Perceived Known Being Anything Meant
I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem. X. J. Kennedy
Rare Poet Think Those Poem Only Person Anybody Producing Moments
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid. Umberto Eco
Great Poet Stupid Politically
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