Quotes by Poet Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff. Bhagat Singh poet lovers stuff How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet. Billy Cannon poet poetry simple While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. Billy Collins novelists poet typewriters I knew that poets seemed to be miserable. Billy Collins miserable poet I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable. Billy Collins miserable poet school You shouldn't let poets lie to you. Bjork poet lying I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. Bob Dylan trapeze-artists trapeze poet I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Bob Dylan poetic poet thinking No bad man can be a good poet. Boris Pasternak bad-man poet men On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra. Brian Patten mathematics poet mind The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you? Brion Gysin phrases poet thinking The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be. Bruce Springsteen poet writing This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator C. S. Lewis musician poet men Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme. C. S. Lewis invention poet conscious Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. C. S. Lewis poet two way How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons. Camille Paglia modern poet should I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. Carl Rakosi social-work poet social The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. Carl Sandburg scholar poet helping I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times. Carol Ann Duffy our-time poet thinking Poets sing our human music for us. Carol Ann Duffy poet humans «1234567891011»