Poet Quotes
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The words are the mirror of a poet. Through which you can see the reflection of himself.
Gaurav Dagaonkar -
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
Diane Ackerman
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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.
Hector Hugh Munro -
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
Erica Jong -
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
Seth Godin -
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
Celia Thaxter -
He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.
Eric Gamalinda -
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.
Clarence John Laughlin
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
Rebecca Harding Davis -
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.
Charles Baxter -
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.
Stephen Spender -
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
Steven Heighton -
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
Henrik Ibsen -
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
John Drinkwater
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It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.
Henry Louis Gates -
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.
Richard Feynman -
The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.
Paul Eluard -
The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.
Susan Stewart -
And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
Ray Bradbury -
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?
Richard Feynman
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This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
Stephen Spender -
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
Terence McKenna