Best 1314 quotes in «poet quotes» category

The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

The nearest we approach God ...is as creative beings. The poet, by echoing the primary imagination, recreates. Through his work he forces those who read him to do the same, thus bringing them... nearer to the actual being of God as displayed in action.

Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about [Osip] Mandelstam, who was a great poet and an anti-Stalinist, and [Cesar] Vallejo, who was a great poet and a Stalinist.

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

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

The poet is always our contemporary.

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

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 poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

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

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

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

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

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

[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

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.

The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.