Poet Quotes

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

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.

"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.

The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won.

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

Poets find truth by writing about what they love.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

Language is the machine of the poet.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.

Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.