Quotes by Poet a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed. Carolina Maria de Jesus poet faces people Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. Caroline Norton lays values poet Poets are interested mostly in death and commas. Carolyn Kizer crafts poet writing A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Carolyn Kizer senate poet dust For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. Catullus godly poet needs A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. Cecil Day-Lewis poet figures should Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. Charles Baudelaire crowds poet solitude Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. Charles Baudelaire philosopher poet epic but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. Charles Bukowski legs poet made Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23. Charles Bukowski poet average Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. Charles Caleb Colton modern poet may Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. Charles Churchill rapture prose poet Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker. Charles de Lint musician poet beautiful The true poet dreams being awake. Charles Lamb poet poetry dream A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader. Charles Olson poet energy way I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. Charles Olson envy poet reason We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets. Charles Webster Hawthorne fine poet teaching Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels. Charlie Chaplin sadness poet beauty When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away. Chath Piersath poet knows talking The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes. Chinua Achebe poet likes way «1234567891011»