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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets.
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.
I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.