Poet Quotes
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
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Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.
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There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
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"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
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We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.
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To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.
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I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
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People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
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If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
