Quotes about poet
poet persons
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems. Robert Frost
poetry emotion found
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
poet intimate combination
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. Rita Dove
poetry reason rhyme
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. Thomas More
poetry language states
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Stephane Mallarme
poet abandon
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.
poetry cosmos poetry-is
Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem. Vanna Bonta
poetry sanctuary spirituality
Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.
poetry
The true poem rests between the words.
poet best-performance performances
Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen. Utah Phillips
poetry fit prime
Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime. Robert Burns
poetry difficult poetry-is
All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow. Robert Browning
poetry tests genuine
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
poetry crafts conscious
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
poetry literature language
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
poetry done certain
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
poetry feelings may
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
poet units sentences
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. Susan Sontag
poetry joy three
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!"). Umberto Eco
poetry literature outcomes
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.
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.
poet happens
Poetry makes nothing happen.
poetry vineyards farming
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse
poetry poet humiliated
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
poetic poet makers
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
poetry professors poetry-is
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
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