Poet Quotes
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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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.
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I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
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It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do-write songs and sing them to people. Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
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Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
