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If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.
Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.
To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.
With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.