Quotes about poet
poet finest
Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets. Annie Dillard
poetry-is knows dividends
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz
poetry pardon burned
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Alexander Pope
poetry together literature
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster
poetry toenails poetry-is
Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. Dylan Thomas
poetry gaps thunder
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
poet ifs
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. Countee Cullen
poetry trying literature
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. Clive James
poetry doe veils
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White
poetry doe veils
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
poetry century prose
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare
poetic-license people poetic
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. Christopher Plummer
poetry together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Christopher Morley
poetry should haiku
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. Anne Bancroft
poetry bears weight
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Anne Stevenson
poetry labels coins
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. Anne Sexton
poetry bankers mysterious
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Allen Tate
poet scientist
Scientist alone is true poet. Allen Ginsberg
poetry roles manipulation
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
poetry poet
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. Alphonse de Lamartine
poetry qualified
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice
poet
I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling. Jessica White
poetry soul burning
Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. Bob Dylan
poetry capes cages
Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.
poet trapeze-artists trapeze
I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.
poetry guilt answers
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built. Billy Bragg
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
poet accepting critics
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. Edmund Clarence Stedman
poet negotiation range
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader. Edward Hirsch
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.
poet reader great-poet
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Edith Sitwell
poet darling
You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that. Edna St. Vincent Millay