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No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.



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SOURCE UNKNOWN No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he choos...
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he cho...
ANONYMOUS Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing alwa...
PLATO A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
CHINESE PROVERB A bird does not sing because it has an answer -- it sings because it has a song.
UNKNOWN A poet is a musician who can't sing.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurk...
WILLIAM D. HOWELLS Her mouth is a honey-blossom,No doubt, as the poet sings;But within her lips, the petals,Lurks a cru...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
COUNTEE CULLEN Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of hi...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
MAYA ANGELOU A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much....
THOMAS CARLYLE A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ...
E. B. WHITE He is great. He sings, he's a comic, he does a magic show... It's great family entertainment.
AGNES KOSINSKI He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a litt...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continual...
JOHN KEATS Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I think he was astonished he won it, ... I wasn't, of course. He considered himself a minor poet, no...
ANNE WRIGHT A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
COUNTEE CULLEN To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet
EUGENE DELACROIX The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958:

A GREA...
ROBERT W. SERVICE A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM MASLOW A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM MASLOW The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
EUGENIO MONTALE A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
MARLON BRANDO As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold
RALPH WALDO EMERSON More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value ...
JOHN BURROUGHS Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his...
OCTAVIO PAZ No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAK The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
JEAN COCTEAU A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death co...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
BOB DYLAN The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
YEHUDA AMICHAI I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poe...
BOB DYLAN And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous,
He must die a little death each morning...
DELMORE SCHWARTZ Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.
DINAH SHORE A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in ...
LEE STRASBERG The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches fo...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his mo...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the super...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. A poet must never make ...
W. H. AUDEN The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
BOB DYLAN I’m A Queer Poet Too! She stressed queer not because she walked around identifying as a que...
MICHELLE TEA A good lyric sings to me. And another lyricist might sing another lyrical song to me.
BARRY MANN It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
STEVEN SEAGAL Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
OCTAVIO PAZ Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences...
T. S. ELIOT Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences...
T.S. ELIOT The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Homer was a true poet. He made the gods ridiculous.
MARTY RUBIN Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth tell...
HUSTON SMITH I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
BOB DYLAN For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
CATULLUS A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they...
PAUL VALERY Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be? My God, no...
GEORGE HERBERT I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER ...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
PHILIP SIDNEY Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why...
JOHN GREEN Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For...
OSCAR WILDE If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he ...
SUKARNO I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, mak...
LORD CHESTERFIELD François Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were ‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ Th...
JOHN GREEN He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.
J.M. BARRIE In a town of writers, he really is our poet laureate,
EMMYLOU HARRIS The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
JEAN COCTEAU I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that...
DIANE WAKOSKI Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is not your mouth that sings. It is your mind and heart that sing.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. ...
LEONARD COHEN I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
OMARI HARDWICK A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
HEINRICH HEINE A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
RENE CHAR The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversi...
MARK VAN DOREN The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion...
MARK VAN DOREN The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversio...
MARK VAN DOREN In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.
ARZUM UZUN Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591 He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge ...
GEORGE HERBERT The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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