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

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

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 uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a loose lasso, one which may rope certain poems by one poet and not others.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.

It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be something vaguely mystifying and even hilarious to people about being a poet, especially in these times. Why would anyone choose to do something so...useless?

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.

It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever.

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from happening. Yet I believe that even if poetry did not do this, it would be vital to our survival.

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.