Poet Quotes
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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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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.
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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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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
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Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.
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The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.
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The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a sense that the writer is a little lost, not deliberately withholding information or turning on the heavy mystery machines, but honestly confounded - by the world? isn't it so? - and letting others listen in on that figuring." That's what engages me - the mind in motion, the drama of someone in the process of thinking - and it's the elusive mystery of those movements that I hope to capture in my essays.
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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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When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.
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The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
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“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
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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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James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre...
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Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.
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For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.
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Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?
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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
