Poet Quotes
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A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
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Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.
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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
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I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
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I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
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Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.
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I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
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Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
