Poet Quotes
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He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.
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At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
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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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I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.
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I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet...
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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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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.
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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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All great poets have been men of great knowledge.
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Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
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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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One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.
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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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There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.
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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
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The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
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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.
