A Quote by Stefan Kanfer

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

Stefan Kanfer

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Died Every Every Man Inside Man Poet Young

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Stefan Kanfer
American - Writer
Born: 1933

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.

Gregory David Roberts

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

Christian Morgenstern

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Mark Nepo

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

Henry David Thoreau

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

George Orwell

In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky's girlfriend.

Keith Gessen

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Clarence Darrow

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

Murray Kempton

You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

Neil Gaiman

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

Arthur Golden

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.

Clive James

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.