poet Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about poet.
“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.”
- John Leguizamo
“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”
- Khalil Gibran
“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.”
- Henry Moore
“My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.”
- Rainn Wilson
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
- William Shakespeare
“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.”
- Steven Seagal
“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.”
- Ella R. Bloor
“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.”
- Michael N. Castle