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Poet Quotes

Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

Russia Modern Poet Historian Became

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

Woman Happy Sweet Triumph Poet He

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

Find Poet Being Combination Exciting

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

Great Attention Poet Being Gets

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Confident Feel More Poet Just Than

In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky's girlfriend.

Fall Young Girlfriend Poet Soviet

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Great Nation Precious Poet Most

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

Great You Want Kind Kingdom Poet

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.

Joyce Carol Oates

Writing Achieve Important Young Poet

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

Life Poetry My Life Poet Spent

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Life Children Trying Poet Cut Knot

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Write Reason Poet Poems Himself

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

World Language Know Individual Poet

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Country Him Poet Proof He His

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Great Me Seeing Watching Poet Like

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

Believe Wish Wishes Alive Poet Been

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Christopher Morley

Courage Door Madness Poet Keep

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

Bad Poet Where Unconscious He Ought

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Think Poet Call Who I Think Himself

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Cultures Poet Politician Been

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Height First Poet Social Involved

I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.

Me Always Poet Being Backpack

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

William Shenstone

Good True Critic Poet Reverse Every

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Oliver Goldsmith

Live Man Employment Poet Could Were

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