The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part. Votes: 3
William Wetmore StoryThe Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. Votes: 3
William WordsworthThe light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream. Votes: 3
William WordsworthThe generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. Votes: 3
Edgar Allan PoeI was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's. Votes: 3
Wilfred OwenHe that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. Votes: 3
Christopher Pearse CranchThe Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. Votes: 3
Bayard TaylorI am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. Votes: 3
John ClevelandA poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Votes: 2
Yevgeny YevtushenkoPoets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Votes: 2
Robert FrostChildren and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. Votes: 2
Jean CocteauEvery English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. Votes: 2
Robert Graves...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain... Votes: 1
John GeddesEvery poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality. Votes: 1
M.F. MoonzajerReminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten. Votes: 1
Delano JohnsonWhen the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviGive contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again. Votes: 1
Kristian Goldmund AumannIn you I see an immaculate woman full of feminine grace and untarnished beauty. Votes: 1
Delano JohnsonEvery time feet move in search of dance, lips find smiles million galaxies wide. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviJoys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength. Votes: 1
Delano JohnsonMy highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket. Votes: 1
Alan C. BairdWe both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. Votes: 1
Emily DickinsonDance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviTime changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo. Votes: 1
Minton SparksThat odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning. Votes: 1
H.D.A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Votes: 1
Kristian Goldmund AumannDance like a holy breeze invades the spirit and fills it with divine grace. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviPoetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies Votes: 1
Oscar SparrowNo thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid. Votes: 1
Nate SpearsCan you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? Votes: 1
Charles BukowskiAlmighty God created a dancer as a symbol of the reflection of artistry in motion. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviDance provides the spirit with energy to survive from its confinement in the mortal frame. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviSands of time pause... for a glimpse of moments dyed with the color of dance. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviWorld seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviThrough synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviTime is never ticking for its moments dye in a colorful dance and move forward. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviPoetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen. Votes: 1
Michael Bassey JohnsonSometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviDance is the healing treasure within your spirit that only movements of passion can set free. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviThere Are No Believers in This World:There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers. Votes: 1
Sharon Esther LampertOn the stage of life, what are words but decorations... unlike dance that showcases the performance? Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviThis was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end Votes: 1
Heinrich HeineHe without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions! Votes: 1
Darnaya DariceIntelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. Votes: 1
Bertolt BrechtOnly when you see the flower for what it is, you can see it's true beauty Votes: 1
Julius P LundbergEveryone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. Votes: 1
Philip LarkinA tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Votes: 1
Charlie ChaplinSpirit of a dancer ages like whiskey for it experiences in each dancing act lifetimes of freedom. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviThe Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses Votes: 1
Arthur RimbaudDance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviReally, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? Votes: 1
Neil Gaimanwhen you're a poetyou can dish out whatever'son your mind and you don't have toapologize for it Votes: 1
Shannon LynetteStanding is symbolic of life itself,Open space is just a distance between you and someone else Votes: 1
Mira MidhaWho has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. Votes: 1
Rainer Maria RilkeI am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. Votes: 1
Philippe PetitYet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing. Votes: 1
Countee CullenDance to the tune of hope, as worries of past slip away to the surrender of smiles. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviMusic does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviShe who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviDespair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness. Votes: 1
Jason E. HodgesI act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened. Votes: 1
Walt WhitmanShow me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviA film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Votes: 1
Orson WellesLost every purpose to visit land of dreams, since colors of dance filled the canvas of my reality. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviIf the power of love is in your heart then dance away to a universe beyond the stars. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviMusic does not need the language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviA poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Votes: 1
Percy Bysshe ShelleyMaybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now? Votes: 1
J. G. BallardGive the mind rest, do not stress too much on thoughts, close your eyes and let your spirit dance. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviWhen the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace? Votes: 1
Sherman KennonNothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life. Votes: 1
D.A. BottaI do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin. Votes: 1
Melissa Lee-HoughtonFor a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about. Votes: 1
Debasish MridhaHow beautiful is the experience of dance. It can melt the grief of a heart with its steps of solace. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviSome people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love. Votes: 1
Charlotte ErikssonI prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look! Votes: 1
Gayathri JayakumarI chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light. Votes: 1
Sherman KennonHow are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way. Votes: 1
Charles BukowskiTake each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet. Votes: 1
D. Antoinette FoyThe poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact. Votes: 1
Fernando PessoaIn most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveThere has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.
Vicki Lewis ThompsonDemocritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. Itâs only that.
Edna St. Vincent MillayThe art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
Henry David ThoreauAt bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBeing a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!
Elizabeth BishopI believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
Francois MauriacThe poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
Henry David ThoreauThere is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.
Jacques MaritainThe poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
Edward DahlbergThe true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SalingerAnd, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
William CowperMultitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
Charles BaudelaireI'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
Honore de BalzacWords become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
Joseph JoubertI became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
Margaret Atwood...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
Samuel Johnson20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.
Diane GlancyA poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.
Irving BachellerThe sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOne of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."
Anne Sexton"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."
Edith SitwellThe words are the mirror of a poet. Through which you can see the reflection of himself.
Gaurav DagaonkarNobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
James FentonTo decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
Karl JaspersFor sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
Philip LevineGolf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.
Ramsay MacDonaldSweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.
Diane di PrimaThe music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Lotte LehmannFor me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.
Marguerite YourcenarThe business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.
Samuel JohnsonI would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
Soren KierkegaardThe poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
Augustus William HareHow do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.
Billy CannonGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
Honore de BalzacAs I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.
June JordanFor a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.
Lord ByronWe ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachA poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
Adrienne RichTwo attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
Czeslaw MiloszIn truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.
Henri ColeWalt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
John Dos PassosA mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.
Karl WeierstrassChildren when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
Lucille CliftonA poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.
Rod McKuenPoets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
Allen TateI am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.
Frank O'HaraThe proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt WhitmanA poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
Jim HarrisonHe that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
Thomas CarlyleIf the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.
Austin O'Malley