Poet Quotes

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Question
- Poet
- Learns
To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no choice: politics is one of the many fragments we thread into the tapestry of the poem.

Andre Naffis-Sahely
- Politics
- Choice
- Poet

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James
As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.

Stephen Karam
- Baby
- Advice
- Guts
[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Paul Muldoon
- Poet
- Edge
- Pitch
An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .

Stephen Spender
- People
- Writing
- Feels
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Virginia Woolf
- Fall
- Poet
- Rhythm