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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.
Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's
In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.
A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.
Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.