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Poet Quotes

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Death People Honor Land Own Poet

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Rain Someone Outside Lightning Poet

I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.

Training Story Think Short Now Poet

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Power Always Fancy Anything Poet

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

John Drinkwater

Good Music Poetry Perception Poet

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Poet Also Joyce

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

Maximilian Schell

Beautiful Think Tragedy Line Poet

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

Finding Back Looks Others Poet He

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Honesty Humor Tough Find Poet Sense

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

David Allan Coe

Class Poet Working Would Nomination

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.

Poetry Writing You Living Poet Get

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Ridiculous Seriously Take Poet Being

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Stephane Mallarme

Work Words Hands Over Pure Poet

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Time Language Conservative Poet Who

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Silence Poet Response Even

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

Theophile Gautier

Anything Poet Exist Well Made Means

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.

Love Through Streets Poet Wandering

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

Raymond Queneau

Identity Singing Story Own Poet He

God is the perfect poet.

Robert Browning

God Poetry Perfect Poet

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

Way Write Praise Poet Poem

I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.

Start Thinking Become Out Poet Did

To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.

Jacqueline Woodson

Love Poetry People Young Try Poet

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

Born Poet Like Made

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

Carol Ann Duffy

Think Poet Like Our Sort Times

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