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There are poets and there are grownups.

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

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.

There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet that I know of who writes in English in the United States is anything but a humanist. So all poets, including myself, seem to be under that umbrella. We just don't have Rush Limbaugh poets, Ann Coulter poets.

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.

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

There were poets before Homer.

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

The true poet dreams being awake.

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

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

The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

They are poets of gesture.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

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

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.

Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

To a poet nothing can be useless.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

This is truth the poet sings . . .