684 Quotes About Poets

The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he's awake.

Poets are the untamed creatures.

Sometimes, you are moved by everything that happens around you. A song moves you so much. Its lyrics make you tear, its melodies take you to another world. You read a poem and you wish you were the one who wrote it. They say you spend your whole life rewriting the poem you loved once. You know that’s true. Because you know how poets feel. You know how they think. You know who they are.

Poets, like their poems, hate to be taken literally.

Faith in the goodness of life is the poet's faith.

Prune my ambition to the lowly prayerThat I may drive the furrow of my taleStraight, through the lives and dignities I know.

Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.

What a poet I am. Like T S Eliot but with better boobs.

A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.