Poet Quotes
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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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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.
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Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.
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If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.
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Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.
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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 . . .
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Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
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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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As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.
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Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
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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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The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.
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My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
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Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
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Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.
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The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
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A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
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I got a head full of headaches, a heart that's full of woes. I'm constantly singin' them down home blues, and not many people knows That leaves me with a twisted view of the whole wide world as I know it... And I guess I got no choice but to be a poet.
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
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I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.
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The words are the mirror of a poet. Through which you can see the reflection of himself.
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Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
