Poet Quotes

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. Barbara Kingsolver
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. Bob Dylan
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A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. Bob Dylan
People Some People Poet Naked Say People Say Some Poem Am Person
Always be a poet, even in prose. Charles Baudelaire
Poet Poetry Prose Always Even
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. Edmond de Goncourt
Man Poet Ladder Puts Climbs Up While Who Star Playing Violin
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. Niels Bohr
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If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. Nikki Giovanni
World Better Poet Other Everybody Would Would-Be Read Became Much Each
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. Thomas Hardy
Thought Poet Own Emotion Opinion His Ages Should Express
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. Vladimir Nabokov
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet. Action Bronson
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet. Ada Lovelace
Time Poet Shall Due
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. Alice Walker
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When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision. Billy Collins
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Charles Baudelaire
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I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind. Christina Aguilera
People Mind Poet Know Want Really Explore Chance
Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it isn't that they mutter and criticize; it is that the poet does not accept the situation called the 'perfect' condition of man - in other words, perfect in the materialistic sense. Derek Walcott
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. Friedrich Nietzsche
God Day Great Poet Creation Seventh Would Would-Be Boredom Subject After
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. Helen Hayes
Poet Picture Detail See Only Beyond Look Whole
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. Jean Cocteau
Poet Worst Admired Through Misunderstood Tragedy Being Being Misunderstood
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet. Jeffery Deaver
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself. John Burroughs
Wait Value Poet Other Must Rather More He Implies Make Him Himself Greatest Understood His Than Taste Any Whitman Growth
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. Kenneth Branagh
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A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. Ludwig van Beethoven
Great Poet Nation Most Precious Jewel
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached. Luis Alberto Urrea
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The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. Max Jacob
Reality Joy Poet Despair Having His Expression Found
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