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Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live in a distraction.
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.
The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.
Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.
while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
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.
Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.
The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.
I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult role.
[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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.
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is- the poet is born, not made.
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.