Quotes about poet
poetry firsts acorns
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Percy Bysshe Shelley
poetry verbs looks
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude. Mary Oliver
poetry way empty
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
poet young written
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet. Philip Levine
poetry mind world
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us. Vernon Lee
poetry way lost
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. Robert Frost
poetry renewal settings
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
poet persons
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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 likes odd
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd Walt Whitman
poetry facts given
Poetry is fact given over to imagery. Rod McKuen
poet easier impression
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler. Robert Schumann
poetry odes causes
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetry may fool
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
poetry poet impossibility
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
poetry way ships
Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips. Tupac Shakur
poetry events moments
Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. Tracy K. Smith
poetry instinct appeals
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. Robinson Jeffers
poet profession conditions
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. Robert Graves
poetry grows
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. Robert Penn Warren
poetry purpose poetry-is
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. Wallace Stevens
poetry dresses worms
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
poetry-is abstraction
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
poetry-is
All poetry is experimental poetry.
poet
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
poetry invisible priests
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
poetry house made
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. Vladimir Mayakovsky
poetry poet beacons-of-light
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Virginia Woolf
poet contemporary
The poet is always our contemporary.
poet journalist
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. Werner Herzog
poet found
No place is a place until it has found its poet. Wallace Stegner