Poet Quotes
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being
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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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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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The engineers of the future will be poets.
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I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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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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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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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.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I wrote poetry; I wouldn't go further. I was in my mid- to late-thirties before I felt that I was a poet, which I think meant that I had begun to embody my poems in some way. I wasn't just a writer of them. Hard to say what, as a poet, my place in the world is. Some place probably between recognition and neglect.
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If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
