Sherman Alexie 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 -
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]
Aulus Gellius -
The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.
William Francis Buckley -
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?
William Gilmore Simms -
When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
Wislawa Szymborska -
Keeping a responsible meter… that’s super important to me.””One of the things I carried from playing with bruce was a sense of time.
Jay Weinberg Against Me!
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A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
Philip James Bailey -
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Erica Jong -
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
Erica Jong -
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard -
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.
Sofia Kovalevskaya -
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt...He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity.
Raymond Queneau
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How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.
Billy Cannon -
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
William Hazlitt -
My brain is just always going and going and going.
Nicholas Brendon -
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
Vinoba Bhave -
I'm a poet who can whine in meter
Sherman Alexie