Best 1314 quotes in «poet quotes» category

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.

Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U.S., and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are 10,000 poets, and maybe there are two Republicans among them.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.

The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory distinctions Kingston makes between the conditions of being a prose writer and "the poet," my multigenre impulses incline me to a broader transformation: to be a writer.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.