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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If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
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The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
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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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The way we do things is to begin.
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As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.
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The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.
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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.
