Lover Poet Quotes

#1. If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words out of my mouth. My words might not be magic, but they cut straight to the truth. So if you need a lover and a friend, baby, I'm in.

Keith Urban

#2. Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Pauline Phillips

#3. There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.

Frederick Buechner

#4. You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.

Virginia Woolf

#5. You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

Jose Bergamin

#6. For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Charles Simic

#7. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

#8. The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

Rollo May

#9. The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

Edith Sitwell

#10. Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

Salvador Dali

#11. And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

Virginia Woolf

#12. I'm not a poet and I'm not a nature lover and I'm not an Anarchist. I am, thank God, absolutely nothing.

Nescio

#13. over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his country, theologian in verse, precursor of the modern novel, and, finally, altissimo poeta, the consummate poet.

Peter S. Hawkins

#14. But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Amelia Barr

#15. I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

Princess Superstar

#16. You have made me a love poet.

Kamand Kojouri

#17. What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.

Aberjhani

#18. Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.

Allen Ginsberg

#19. She wants a warrior lover with strong hands wild eyes and a poet's heart.

N.R. Hart

#20. You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

David Brenner

#21. Catch my heart and take my Hand to find yourself some Big Time Love.

Gemini Rising Rockin' Machine, The

#22. Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

Samuel Lover

#23. You claim to love God, and yet you disobey God
This is a bizarre way of reasoning
Surely, the lover, if his love is true,
Is most obedient to the one he loves.

Poet

#24. I am a lover of love and I am a lover of words, and the two together spin visions of airy castles, but also may pierce the heart of hope. And so I remind you that I am a fool, a poet, and what matters is reality, not lovely words. Words are full of promise, yet empty of matter.

Waylon H. Lewis

#25. The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

William Wordsworth

#26. Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

Celia Thaxter

#27. The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

Babette Deutsch

#28. Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Thomas Aquinas

#29. Runners who attend a yoga class the day after a marathon are often amazed at the speed of their recovery; they are able to go up and down the stairs without pain and stiffness in short order.

Christine Felstead

#30. You think you're so selfless, you think you're working to save everyone, but what if you're going about it all wrong? At least when I live as a boy, no one gets hurt. But you pretendin' to be a martyr? Pretending to be the Fury? That hurts everyone.

Susan Dennard

#31. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

William Shakespeare

#32. A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

Munia Khan