Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.

It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

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