Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson -
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot -
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
W. S. Merwin -
I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up.
Diana Ross -
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Oscar Wilde -
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir Nabokov -
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
William Shenstone
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Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
William Watson -
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
William H. Gass -
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
Walt Whitman -
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
Soren Kierkegaard -
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Saint Augustine -
Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
Tamron Hall -
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
The engineers of the future will be poets.
Terence McKenna