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

    Sadness   Youth   Poet  
  • I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

    Mother   Lying   Way  
  • The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

    "Essays on Elizabethan Drama".
  • I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

    Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
  • A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

    "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.
  • A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry with his very life. A true poet doesn't use poetic devices to con the heart of a woman but uses the beauty of all that is poetic to serve, cherish, and express love to the heart of a woman. Just as a true warrior is not a conqueror of femininity but a protector of femininity, a true poet is not just a wooer of a woman's heart but one who knows how to nurture and plant love in a woman's heart. Simply put, a true poet is a man who knows how to be intimate with a lover - first and foremost with Christ.

    Writing   Heart   Warrior  
  • Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

    Poetry   Myrtle   Ruins  
    George Crabbe, “The VILLage: Book I”
  • Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

    Strength   Crazy   Roots  
    Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press
  • In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

  • Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

  • I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

    Gay   Sick   Poetry  
    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions
  • It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

    War   Wish   Events  
    Note appended to "The End of War", poem by Herbert Read, 1933.
  • A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

    1958 'Un ruban de reves' in L'Express, 5 Jun. Reprinted in English in International Film Annual, no.2.
  • "Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.

    Art   Writing   Mean  
  • All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

    Idlers   Poet   Ifs  
    "A lack of elegy" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2006.
  • I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.

    Poetry   Letters   Jest  
  • I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.

    Believe   Idols   Singing  
  • The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that.

    Artist   Looks   Poet  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
  • A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

    Writing   Style   Poet  
    Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 22 June 1776)
  • The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

  • Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

  • Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

    Drink   Poet   All Things  
    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.10, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

    Hunters   World   Poet  
  • SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

    Years   Lovely   Common  
    JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1962). “THE GREAT CRASH 1929”
  • Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

    Men   Poetry   Rate  
    'Ars Poetica' l. 372
  • The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.188, Penguin
  • Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

  • Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

    Book   Poet   Turns  
    "Don Quixote".
  • but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

    Legs   Poet   Made  
    Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.16, Canongate Books
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