Quotes about poet
poetry prose
Prose talks and poetry sings. Franz Grillparzer
poetry-and-music tone sound
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
poetry criticism tailors
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
poetry poetic poet
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
poet satisfied
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. Jeanette Winterson
poetic-license novelists poetic
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Jerzy Kosinski
poetry style morality
For a poet, style is the only morality. Jennifer Stone
poetry noble delight
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
poet modern modern-day
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare Eminem
poetry scribbles
We all scribble poetry. Homer
poetic verses
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. Howard Nemerov
poetry fidgeting sometimes
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
poetry nuisance solace
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. Hortense Calisher
poetry anvils ill
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. Horace
poet madmen fellows
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
poetry want exaggeration
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. Friedrich Nietzsche
poet carriages rhythm
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
poetry-is
... poetry is fired by love ... Erica Jong
poetic-license dying understood
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
poetry identity literature
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them. George Steiner
poetry use records
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.
poetry indispensable poetry-is
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. Jean Cocteau
poetry poetic invention
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
poetry poet grownups
There are poets and there are grownups.
poet
Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Federico Fellini
poetry wells prose
Poetry must be as well written as prose. Ezra Pound
poetry firsts break
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave
poet not-interested
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
poetry elements likes
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
poetry speak nectar
The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar. Henry Miller
poet poets today truest
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful. Wilfred Owen
poet lays values
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. Caroline Norton
poetry possibility outrage
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ... Muriel Rukeyser