Poet Quotes
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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.
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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
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The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
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I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?
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Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
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Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
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A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
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A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
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A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.
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Each poet creates an expatriate space, a slightly skewed domain where things are freshly felt because they are freshly said.
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But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
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Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.
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Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.
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With Ameen Rihani the matter is diametrically opposite to Alois Musil's Arabian Desert, in purpose, in point of view and, above all, in personal psychology... I have considerable admiration for Mr. Rihani as a writer, an authentic poet and a philosopher.
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Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
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The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
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A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
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A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
