poet Quotes

“Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.”

“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.”

“My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.”

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”

“Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.”

“I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.”

“Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.”