Poet Quotes
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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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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 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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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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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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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
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I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
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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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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
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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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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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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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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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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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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
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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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If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
