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"What do you gargle with? Pebbles? (to singer Tom Jones after a 1969 Royal Variety performance)" »Prince Phillip
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"If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes." »Mickey Spillane
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"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."" »Soren Kierkegaard
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" »John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs
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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." »Author Unknown
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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" »Author Unknown
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"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket." »John Adams, Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)
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"Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me." »Sigmund Freud
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"Most joyful the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see." »William E. Channing
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"Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet." »Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
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"A poet is someone who is astonished by everything." »Anonymous
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"A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity." »James Russell Lowell
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"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." »Plato
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"An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer." »Marlon Brando
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"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth." »Jean Cocteau
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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." »John Ciardi
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"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"Inside every man there is a poet who died young." »Stefan Kanfer
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"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood." »Jean Cocteau
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"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." »Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1978
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"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, A preface to "Paradise Lost"
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"A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it." »Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
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"Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on." »Woody Allen
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"A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere." »W. H. Auden
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"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child." »H.L. Mencken
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"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content." »Alfred De Musset
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"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there." »E. M. Cioran
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