Best 1314 quotes in «poet quotes» category

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

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

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together, they bounce off each other in interesting ways that you couldn't get otherwise, because you do things unexpectedly.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.