Poetry Poet Quotes

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All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

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.

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

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

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

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

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

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

There are poets and there are grownups.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

There were poets before Homer.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.

Poets are born, not paid.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.

The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.