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Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

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

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

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