Poet Quotes

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

Black is not sad. Black is poetic.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

They call me a poet, but I’m just a victim of the memories we share and a great observer of the universe of us.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

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

The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.