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You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.
You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.
What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.
My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold
I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.