Quotes:
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
View quotes by Bob Dylan
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
View quotes by Max Eastman
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
View quotes by E B White
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
View quotes by Bob Dylan
“Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Every work of art is about everything.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Originality in art puts charm where it wasn’t.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
View quotes by Eli Siegel
Always be a poet, even in prose.
View quotes by Charles Baudelaire
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
View quotes by André Gide
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
View quotes by Sigmund Freud
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
View quotes by Edmund Wilson
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
View quotes by Wallace Stevens
I always wanted to be a minor poet.
View quotes by Christopher Fry
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
View quotes by William Hazlitt
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
View quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,
Therefore on him so speech!
View quotes by Walter Landor
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
View quotes by Thornton Wilder
I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
View quotes by Christina Aguilera
A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
View quotes by Bob Dylan
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
View quotes by W H Auden
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence
View quotes by Joseph Joubert