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Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself--a Black woman warrior poet doing my work--come to ask you, are you doing yours?

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

Poets are born, not paid.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

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

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

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

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

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

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.