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Poet Quotes

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Darkness Poetry Sweet Solitude Poet

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

Poetry Said Risk Poet Only Been

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

World Side Poet

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Matter Little Things Poet Whom Made

'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet - there's also a beautiful side to 'Rather You Than Me.'

Beautiful Me Survive You Side Poet

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

Leave Poet Proof Must Passage His

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Anger Voice Back Early Spirit Poet

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Leonardo da Vinci

Invisible Representation Things Poet

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

Soul My Soul Poet Journalist Began

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

James Russell Lowell

Eye Poet Notebook

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

Me Husband Always Critic Poet Along

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Jealous Poor Poet Craftsman Against

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

People Me Admire Others Poet Above

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

Money I Am Never First Miracle Poet

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Fire Brother Mind Contact Poet

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Sleep Dream Escape Equal Poet

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Joy Reality Despair Poet Expression

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.

Ideas Emotions Intellect Poet His

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I Am Me Actor Things Poet Writer

To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.

Say Digital Out Shape Big Poet

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Great Warrior Artist Scholar Poet

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

Poet Journalist

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

God Name Poet Creator None Merits

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Poetry Mind Enjoy Person Poet Even

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