Poet Quotes

• Solon / Statesman

Poets tell many lies.

• William Watson / Poet

God, eldest of Poets.

• Robert Browning / Poet

God is the perfect poet.

• Addison Mizner / Architect

Poets are born, not paid.

• George Balanchine / Choreographer

They are poets of gesture.

• H. L. Mencken / Journalist

A poet over 30 is pathetic

• May Sarton / Poet

a poet never feels useful.

• Dante Alighieri / Poet

Honor is the greatest poet.

• Octavio Paz / Poet

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist

All men are poets at heart.

• Heinrich Heine / Poet

Don't send a poet to London.

• Horace / Poet

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

• W. H. Auden / Poet

Poetry makes nothing happen.

• Allen Ginsberg / Poet

Scientist alone is true poet.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley / Poet

Poet's food is love and fame.

• Boris Pasternak / Poet

No bad man can be a good poet.

• Ho Chi Minh / Political Leader

A poet must learn to wage war.

• Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher

There were poets before Homer.

• Samuel Johnson / Writer

Was ever poet so trusted before?

• Charles Baudelaire / Poet

Always be a poet, even in prose.

• Edward Dorn / Poet

We need help, the poet reckoned.

• Isaac D'israeli / Writer

A poet is a painter of the soul.

• Jose Marti / Poet

Oh, what company good poets are!

• Lewis Hyde / Essayist

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

• Wilfred Owen / Poet

All a poet can do today is warn.

• Ada Lovelace / Countess Of Lovelace

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

• Charles Lamb / Writer

The true poet dreams being awake.

• Kathleen Raine / Poet

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

• Matthew Arnold / Poet

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

• Sherman Alexie / Poet

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

• Carol Ann Duffy / Poet

Poets sing our human music for us.

• George Henry Lewes / Philosopher

Science is not addressed to poets.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

This is truth the poet sings . . .

• Ben Jonson / Playwright

A good poet's made as well as born.

• Bjork / Singer-Songwriter

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

• Marie Howe / Poet

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

• James Russell Lowell / Poet

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

• Babette Deutsch / Poet

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

• Edmund Clarence Stedman / Poet

A poet must sing for his own people.

• Jean Cocteau / Poet

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

• John Berryman / Poet

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

• Matthea Harvey / Poet

To be a poet you have to experiment.

• Patrick Rothfuss / Writer

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

• T. S. Eliot / Playwright

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

• Thomas B. Macaulay / Former Secretary At War

Language is the machine of the poet.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

• Virginia Woolf / Writer

The poet is always our contemporary.

• Francois Coppee / Poet

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

• George Meredith / Novelist

As we to the brutes, poets are to us.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Poet

An undevout poet is an impossibility.