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Poet Quotes: "For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food."

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.



Poet Quotes: "The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker."

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.




Poet Quotes: "To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.



Poet Quotes: "We photographers are poets in the language of symbols."

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.




Poet Quotes: "Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst."

Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.



Poet Quotes: "The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide."

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.



Poet Quotes: "Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts."

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.




Poet Quotes: "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.



Poet Quotes: "The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing."

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.



Poet Quotes: "The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life."

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.



Poet Quotes: "It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos."

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.



Poet Quotes: "The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate"

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate




Poet Quotes: "A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of."

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.



Poet Quotes: "The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it."

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.



Poet Quotes: "Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys."

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.



Poet Quotes: "A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest."

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.



Poet Quotes: "We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there."

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.



Poet Quotes: "Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery."

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.



Poet Quotes: "It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.



Poet Quotes: "The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.



Poet Quotes: "The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature."

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.



Poet Quotes: "That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem."

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.



Poet Quotes: "For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss."

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.



Poet Quotes: "I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets."

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.



Poet Quotes: "Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over."

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.



Poet Quotes: "We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings."

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.



Poet Quotes: "The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage."

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.



Poet Quotes: "I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist."

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.



Poet Quotes: "Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time."

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.



Poet Quotes: "A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.



Poet Quotes: "I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet."

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.



Poet Quotes: "Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language."

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.



Poet Quotes: "Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb."

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.



Poet Quotes: "There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world."

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.



Poet Quotes: "He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger."

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.



Poet Quotes: "And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover."

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.



Poet Quotes: "I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round."

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.



Poet Quotes: "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty."

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.



Poet Quotes: "To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life."

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.



Poet Quotes: "It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself."

It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.



Poet Quotes: "Poets are interested mostly in death and commas."

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.



Poet Quotes: "Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome."

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.



Poet Quotes: "The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep."

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.



Poet Quotes: "The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.



Poet Quotes: "For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey."

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.



Poet Quotes: "Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets."

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.



Poet Quotes: "Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.



Poet Quotes: "The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking."

The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.



Poet Quotes: "A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.