Quotes by Poet Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man. A. N. Wilson poet saint men The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. A. R. Ammons risk poet said Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Abraham Cowley conquer triumph poet Poets are born, not paid. Addison Mizner born poet poetry As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. Adrienne Rich dogma poet young In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time. Al Alvarez nervous british poet The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature. Aldous Huxley hyde human-nature poet A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn poet party poetry A poem's life and death dependeth still Alexander Brome wit life-and-death poet Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Alexander Pope dinner poet men Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, Alexander Pope muse poet causes Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated. Alexandre Dumas poet age mind Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive. Alfred de Musset dormant poet alive The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog. Algernon Charles Swinburne tadpoles frogs poet To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life. Algernon Charles Swinburne musician greatness poet As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers. Ali Liebegott filmmaker grateful poet Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry? Alice Munro perfect-things poet perfect I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. Alice Walker poet novel writing Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are! Alice Walker courageous poet lucky For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice. Alison Hawthorne Deming poet voice should 1234567891011»