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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

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.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The engineers of the future will be poets.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

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

The eye is the notebook of the 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 ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

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

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.