'Poet' Quotes

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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Painter, Photographer, Poet, 0

- Jean Cocteau

Artist

· France

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• Painter
• Photographer
• Poet

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O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Ingelow, Poet, Sage, Women, 0

- Jean Ingelow

Poet

· England

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• Poet
• Sage
• Women

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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Art, Equal, Poet, 0

- Horace

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• Art
• Equal
• Poet

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I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Toomer, Poet, Poetic, 0

- Jean Toomer

Writer

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• Poet
• Poetic

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The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jeanette Winterson, Poet, Satisfied, 0

- Jeanette Winterson

Author

· England

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• Poet
• Satisfied

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…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jeanette Winterson, Language, Poet, 0

- Jeanette Winterson

Author

· England

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• Language
• Poet

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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Franz Grillparzer, Poet, Poetic, Poetry, 0

- Franz Grillparzer

Writer

· Austria

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• Poet
• Poetic
• Poetry

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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Friedrich Nietzsche, Poet, 0

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher

· Germany

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• Poet

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The spirit of the poet craves spectators… even if only buffaloes. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Friedrich Nietzsche, Poet, Spectators, Spirit, 0

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher

· Germany

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• Poet
• Spectators
• Spirit

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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gabriela Mistral, Knots, Love, Poet, 0

- Gabriela Mistral

Poet

· Chile

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• Knots
• Love
• Poet

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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Challenge, Poet, 0

- Mary Oliver

Poet

· USA

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• Challenge
• Poet

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Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Ruefle, Aspire, Bird, Poet, 0

- Mary Ruefle

Poet

· USA

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• Aspire
• Bird
• Poet

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I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mattie Stepanek, Philosopher, Poet, 0

- Mattie Stepanek

Poet

· USA

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• Philosopher
• Poet

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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Max Eastman, Poet, Rooms, 0

- Max Eastman

Writer

· USA

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• Poet
• Rooms

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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, May Sarton, Poet, 0

- May Sarton

Poet

· Belgium

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• Poet

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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, May Sarton, Passion, Poet, 0

- May Sarton

Poet

· Belgium

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• Passion
• Poet

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Would you be a poet Before you’ve been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Carroll, Fool, Poet, School, 0

- Lewis Carroll

Author

· England

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• Fool
• Poet
• School

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You have a point,” said Fronto, “and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lloyd Alexander, Bows, Logic, Poet, 0

- Lloyd Alexander

Author

· USA

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• Bows
• Logic
• Poet

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Byron, Miserable, Poet, 0

- Lord Byron

Poet

· England

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• Miserable
• Poet

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Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Luc Delahaye, Artist, Poet, 0

- Luc Delahaye

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• Artist
• Poet

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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lucille Clifton, Care, Poet, Writing, 0

- Lucille Clifton

Poet

· USA

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• Care
• Poet
• Writing

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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architecture, Language, Poet, 0

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architect

· Germany

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• Architecture
• Language
• Poet

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The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. H. Auden, Born, Language, Poet, 0

- W. H. Auden

Poet

· England

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• Born
• Language
• Poet

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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes… Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. Somerset Maugham, Poet, Steps, 0

- W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright and novelist

· United Kingdom

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• Poet
• Steps

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A poet’s words are of things that do not exist without the words. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Poet, 0

- Wallace Stevens

Poet

· USA

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• Poet

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Philosopher, Philosophy, Poet, 0

- Wallace Stevens

Poet

· USA

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• Philosopher
• Philosophy
• Poet

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The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Mind, Poet, 0

- Wallace Stevens

Poet

· USA

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• Mind
• Poet

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James McMurtry is a true Americana poet – actually he is a poet regardless of genre Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michael Nesmith, Genre, Poet, 0

- Michael Nesmith

Musician

· USA

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• Genre
• Poet

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My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Miguel Serrano, Messages, Poet, Understood, 0

- Miguel Serrano

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• Messages
• Poet
• Understood

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A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gary Snyder, Poet, Self, 0

- Gary Snyder

Poet

· USA

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• Poet
• Self

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The words are the mirror of a poet. Through which you can see the reflection of himself. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaurav Dagaonkar, Mirrors, Poet, Reflection, 0

- Gaurav Dagaonkar

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• Mirrors
• Poet
• Reflection

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Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Farquhar, Adversity, Poet, Prosperity, 0

- George Farquhar

Playwright

· Ireland

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• Adversity
• Poet
• Prosperity

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For five hundred years after Walther’s death – until Goethe – no German lyric poet was his equal. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walther von der Vogelweide, Poet, 0

- Walther von der Vogelweide

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• Poet

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Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Wilferd Peterson, Book, Philosopher, Poet, 0

- Wilferd Peterson

Author

· USA

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• Book
• Philosopher
• Poet

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All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Wilfred Owen, Poet, Truth, 0

- Wilfred Owen

Poet

· England

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• Poet
• Truth

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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, William Blake, Imagination, Poet, Vision, 0

- William Blake

Poet and artist

· England

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• Imagination
• Poet
• Vision

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Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He’s a warrior first and a poet second. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Ken Kesey, Poet, Warrior, 0

- Ken Kesey

Author

· USA

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• Poet
• Warrior

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the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet, Rhyming, Wire, 0

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poet

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• Poet
• Rhyming
• Wire

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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet’s Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Wilfred Owen, Boys, Poet, 0

- Wilfred Owen

Poet

· England

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• Boys
• Poet

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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Butler Yeats, Painter, Poet, 0

- William Butler Yeats

Poet

· Ireland

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• Painter
• Poet

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And, of all lies (be that one poet’s boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Cowper, Boast, Lying, Poet, 0

- William Cowper

Poet

· England

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• Boast
• Lying
• Poet

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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Hazlitt, Envy, Player, Poet, 0

- William Hazlitt

Essayist

· England

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• Envy
• Player
• Poet

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Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Poet, 0

- Horace

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• Poet

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Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Book, Poet, 0

- Horace

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• Book
• Poet

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The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Mad, Poet, 0

- Horace

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• Mad
• Poet

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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Mediocrity, Poet, 0

- Horace

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• Mediocrity
• Poet

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They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Howard Zinn, Gun, Poet, Winning, 0

- Howard Zinn

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• Gun
• Poet
• Winning

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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. D. Salinger, Choices, Materials, Poet, 0

- J. D. Salinger

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• Choices
• Materials
• Poet

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A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Prelutsky, Poet, 0

- Jack Prelutsky

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• Poet

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There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jacques Maritain, Poet, Rooms, 0

- Jacques Maritain

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• Poet
• Rooms

Poet – Symbolic Value

The word “poet” holds a special place in the hearts of many. It is a term that evokes images of beauty, creativity, and passion. But beyond its literal meaning, the concept of a poet holds a deeper symbolic value. It represents the power of words, the ability to capture emotions and experiences, and the courage to share them with the world.In ancient times, poets were revered as messengers of the gods. They were seen as vessels through which divine inspiration flowed, and their words were believed to have the power to heal, inspire, and even predict the future. This symbolic value of a poet is still present in modern times, as they continue to be seen as visionaries and truth-tellers.

Poet – Cultural and Historical Significance

Throughout history, poets have played a significant role in shaping cultures and societies. From the epic poems of Homer to the romantic sonnets of Shakespeare, their words have stood the test of time and continue to influence our understanding of the world. In many cultures, poetry is considered a form of cultural heritage, passed down from generation to generation.Poets have also been at the forefront of social and political movements, using their words to challenge the status quo and bring about change. From the works of Langston Hughes during the civil rights movement to the powerful verses of Maya Angelou during the feminist movement, poets have used their platform to give a voice to the marginalized and oppressed.

Poet – Common Themes in Motivational Contexts

Poetry has long been used as a source of motivation and inspiration. The words of poets have the power to uplift, encourage, and ignite a fire within us. Many motivational speakers and self-help gurus often turn to poetry to convey their message and connect with their audience.Common themes in motivational poetry include perseverance, resilience, and the pursuit of dreams. Poets often use metaphors and imagery to convey these themes, making their words relatable and impactful. Some famous motivational poems include “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.

Poet – Portrayal in Art and Media

The concept of a poet has been romanticized in art and media. From paintings to films, poets are often portrayed as brooding, tortured souls, pouring their hearts out onto paper. This portrayal has contributed to the mystique and allure surrounding poets, making them seem almost otherworldly.In popular culture, poets are often depicted as eccentric and unconventional, challenging societal norms and living life on their own terms. This portrayal has also led to the stereotype of the “starving artist,” with many poets struggling to make a living from their craft.

Poet – Impact on Understanding of Life and Society

Poetry has the power to transcend time and place, making it a universal language that connects us all. Poets have the ability to capture the essence of the human experience, from love and loss to joy and pain. Through their words, they offer us a glimpse into different perspectives and help us understand the complexities of life and society.Poetry also serves as a reflection of the times, providing a commentary on social and political issues. It challenges us to think critically and empathize with others, ultimately leading to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us.In conclusion, the concept of a poet goes beyond the literal definition of a writer of poems. It holds a symbolic value that represents the power of words, the cultural and historical significance of poetry, common themes in motivational contexts, portrayal in art and media, and its impact on our understanding of life and society. Poets continue to inspire and influence us, reminding us of the beauty and power of language.