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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
I am a greedy poet. I keep munching life all the time. Sweet, sour and bitter moments.
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they
I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.
I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.
Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.
I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.
As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'
In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
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 have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
