He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. Votes: 1
I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.' Votes: 1
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there. Votes: 1
The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life. Votes: 1
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished. Votes: 1
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged. Votes: 1
I learn life from the poets. Votes: 0
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. Votes: 0
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life. Votes: 0
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Votes: 9 Elizabeth Kenny
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. Votes: 3 Jean Cocteau