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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.

Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, "That were to consider it too curiously.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.