Poet Quotes

I will always be the one who made you into poetry.

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting the earth, sun, and all sorts of things — for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.

We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.

How to be a poet – call yourself one and pick up a pen.