Quotes about poet
poetry-is translations
Poetry is what is gained in translation. Joseph Brodsky
poetry hammers hollow
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. John Ashbery
poet vanguard changed
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being. Martin Heidegger
poetry phrases meter
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.... Nikki Giovanni
poetic poet interest
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. Muhammad Iqbal
poet really-great creatures
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. Oscar Wilde
poetry touching charm
Gently touching with the charm of poetry. Lucretius
poetry blithe subjects
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. Michel de Montaigne
poet genre americana
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre Michael Nesmith
poet passing currents
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing. Marguerite Yourcenar
poetry tasks criticize
I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all. Margaret Atwood
poetry language poetry-is
poetry is where the language is renewed.
poet born orators
We are born poets. we become orators. Marcus Tullius Cicero
poet orators
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
poetry excellence madness
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
poetry poet
There were poets before Homer.
poet conceit orators
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
poetic-license poetry poetic
The freedom of poetic license.
poet
who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets? Margaret Cavendish
poetry needs world
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad. Patricia MacLachlan
poet dylan allan-poe
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. Jack Prelutsky
poetry able stuff
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. Ishmael Reed
poet great-poet
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. Kenneth Koch
poetry darkness rhyme
I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing. Seamus Heaney
poet meter
I'm a poet who can whine in meter Sherman Alexie
poet interpreter
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. Socrates
poetry age ornaments
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing John Milton
poetry may historian
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. Miguel de Cervantes
poet said maggie
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one. Nora Roberts
poetry want annoying
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
poetry saws speak
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. John Ruskin
poetry simplicity noble
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. Matthew Arnold
poet wide
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.