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A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

Quotes by George Henry Lewes

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

Quotes by Emil Cioran

It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.

Quotes by Elif Safak

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

Quotes by Edward Hirsch

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

Quotes by Edward Dahlberg

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Quotes by Edward Dowden

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

Quotes by Edmund Wilson

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Quotes by Edith Sitwell

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Quotes by E. M. Forster

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Quotes by Douglas Dunn

How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

Quotes by Derek Walcott

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Quotes by David Carradine

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

Quotes by David Allan Coe

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

Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

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

Quotes by Christopher Morley

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

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

Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Quotes by Carl Rakosi

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

Quotes by Bryant H. McGill

No bad man can be a good poet.

Quotes by Boris Pasternak

I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.

Quotes by Boyd Holbrook

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

Quotes by Bob Dylan

In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.

Quotes by Billy Collins

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

Quotes by Beth Henley

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Quotes by Ben Hecht

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.

Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Quotes by August Wilson

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

Quotes by August Wilson

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Quotes by Anne Stevenson

I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet.

Quotes by Anne Waldman

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Quotes by Andrew Motion

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Quotes by Andre Gide

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

Quotes by Amity Gaige

I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet.

Quotes by Amandla Stenberg

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

Quotes by Alice Oswald

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

Quotes by Ada Lovelace

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

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