Poet Quotes
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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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The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.
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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
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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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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
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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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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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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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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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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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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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I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.
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For a man to become a poet, he must be in love, or miserable.
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Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution, a perception.
