Poet Quotes
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At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful …
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.
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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
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The poet I saw once... but whose words have long been in my mind, windows of invincible candles..
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The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.
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[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.
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What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
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The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.
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The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.
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The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.
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The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.
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In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
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With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
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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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Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.
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Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.
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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 occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.
