Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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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.
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
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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.
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When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
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[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.
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It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.
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Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
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I don't really think so much of what kind of man I am. I just do what I like and enjoy, and let other people think what they want.
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The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
