Poet Quotes

I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Poetry is – it’s an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that’s a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet’s destiny is to love.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

I’m a poet, a sad poet, who wrote about her, always and forever.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.