Quotes about poet
poet feels
a poet never feels useful. May Sarton
poet clear
It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.
poetry doubt quests
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes. Matsuo Basho
poet aim knows
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet. Mary Webb
poetry age
It was at that age that poetry came in search of me. Pablo Neruda
poetry poetry-is
Poetry is an act of peace.
poet asks
Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot. Plato
poetry emotion ends
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance Philip Larkin
poetry wordsworth deprivation
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
poet never-lie
...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. Philip Sidney
poetry prophet made
Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers. Philip James Bailey
poetry unconscious amount
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. Marianne Moore
poetry nouns verbs
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
poet pretentious disgusting
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
poetic primal
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
poet time-spent
Time spent with poets is never wasted.
poetry gaps muse
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter. Mason Cooley
poetry machines bees
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
poetry deeds titles
Title deeds generally outlast poems.
poetry professors daring
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
poetry soul single-relationship
Every single soul is a poem. Michael Franti
poetry poetry-is
religion is poetry, - poetry is religion. Marie Corelli
poet chosen subjects
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you? Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
poetry saying
I have nothing to say And I am saying it And that is poetry John Cage
poetry poetry-is
The act of making poetry is an act of hope. Natasha Trethewey
poetry sentences prose
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. James Schuyler
poetry mastery logic
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. James Russell Lowell
poetry has-beens
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
poetry obscurity praise
A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read. Hartley Coleridge
poetry teenagers wrote
And I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. Stephen Colbert
poetry drug mere
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. George Farquhar
poet theory feels
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. John Ciardi
poetry
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. Simon Schama