Quotes about poe
poet profession conditions
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. Robert Graves
poetry great-poet can-do
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Stephen Spender
poetry problem haiku
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then Roger McGough
poetry ends lost
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. W. S. Merwin
poetry adjectives
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. W. H. Auden
poet said reader
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves. W. H. Auden
poet happens
Poetry makes nothing happen. W. H. Auden
poetry vineyards farming
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse W. H. Auden
poetry poet humiliated
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated. W. H. Auden
poetic poet makers
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. W. H. Auden
poetry professors poetry-is
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? W. H. Auden
poet
Even a poet cannot get everything right. Ursula K. Le Guin
poetry warning today
All a poet can do today is warn. Wilfred Owen