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.Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman -
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 -
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Rainn Wilson
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot -
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.
Maya Angelou -
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 -
When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
Lauren Graham -
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
Lord Dunsany -
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
Antonio Machado
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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.
Erykah Badu -
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 -
When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.
Eliphas Levi -
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
William Wordsworth -
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
William Bernbach
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
John Lennon The Beatles -
What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.
Lewis Carroll -
We[ Papa Roach ]'re always trying to get bigger and bigger. It's weird because I wasn't around when they sold millions of records. Now it's just always about "OK what new people can we get to." We're trying to package up with younger bands like Bring Me the Horizon or Of Mice and Men. Those bands always get talked about, because their demographic is so young. But, actually we are seeing a lot of younger people at shows which is awesome.
Tony Palermo Papa Roach -
A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
Plato -
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton