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Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.