Poet Quotes
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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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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Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.
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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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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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When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Or the comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.
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Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.
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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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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.
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What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.
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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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Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
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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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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
