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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
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 mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.
If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
Black Poets should live--not leap
From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.
There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the songs that must be sung.
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.
I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.
When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
I have heard that hysterical women say
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.
It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.
Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.
