Poet Quotes
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
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Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.
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I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet...
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Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
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Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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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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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.
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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.
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Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
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The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.
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For a man to become a poet, he must be in love, or miserable.
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For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.
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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
