Poetry Poet Quotes

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the Cup of Love.

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit

I’m burning in despair Love which you distanced from me Return once again I’ll forgive you againReturn, Page 19

Poetry keeps my heart neat, even when incomplete, I find peace.

Do you see how the sky holds the sun?In a powerful but effortless way that shows off her beauty and strength?That's how a King holds his Queen.

If I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essenceAllen Ginsberg warns youdont follow my pathto extinction

Must I wonder if your thoughts are of me? If you are missing me, wanting me, creating heart beats and poet-less words for me? [ i do…]