Poet Quotes
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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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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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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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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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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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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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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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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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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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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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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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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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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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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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the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
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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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If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
