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Poet Quotes: "Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!"

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!



Poet Quotes: "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.




Poet Quotes: "Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field."

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.



Poet Quotes: "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."

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.




Poet Quotes: "A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made."

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.



Poet Quotes: "Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it."

Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.



Poet Quotes: "When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man."

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.




Poet Quotes: "All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal."

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.



Poet Quotes: "The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for."

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.



Poet Quotes: "He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages."

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.



Poet Quotes: "Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees."

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.



Poet Quotes: "Good poets borrow, great poets steal"

Good poets borrow, great poets steal




Poet Quotes: "Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead."

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.



Poet Quotes: "The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it."

The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it.



Poet Quotes: "In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet."

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.



Poet Quotes: "From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue."

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.



Poet Quotes: "Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss."

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.



Poet Quotes: "Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal."

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.



Poet Quotes: "The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures."

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.



Poet Quotes: "Honor is the greatest poet."

Honor is the greatest poet.



Poet Quotes: "Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time."

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.



Poet Quotes: "What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?"

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?



Poet Quotes: "The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion."

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.



Poet Quotes: "A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter."

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.



Poet Quotes: "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet."

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.



Poet Quotes: "Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another."

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.



Poet Quotes: "The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it."

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.



Poet Quotes: "To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.



Poet Quotes: "You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that."

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.



Poet Quotes: "The poet is the one who breaks through our habits."

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.



Poet Quotes: "He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse."

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.



Poet Quotes: "God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations."

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.



Poet Quotes: "Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible."

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.



Poet Quotes: "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."

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.



Poet Quotes: "Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense"

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense



Poet Quotes: "The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.



Poet Quotes: "In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will."

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.



Poet Quotes: "Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth."

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.



Poet Quotes: "In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand."

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.



Poet Quotes: "The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free."

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.



Poet Quotes: "A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen."

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.



Poet Quotes: "Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet."

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.



Poet Quotes: "And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval."

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.



Poet Quotes: "Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets."

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.



Poet Quotes: "The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation."

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.



Poet Quotes: "Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose."

Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.



Poet Quotes: "When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes."

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.



Poet Quotes: "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'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.



Poet Quotes: "Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer."

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.