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What Is A Poet Quotes: "You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable."

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be."

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.




What Is A Poet Quotes: "I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface."

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet."

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.




What Is A Poet Quotes: "Poet: gardener of epitaphs."

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate."

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination."

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.




What Is A Poet Quotes: "The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words."

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed."

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring."

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech."

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place."

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.




What Is A Poet Quotes: "No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet."

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making."

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him."

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf."

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do."

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke"

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke



What Is A Poet Quotes: "I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery."

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry."

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter."

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



What Is A Poet Quotes: "To love is to transform; to be a poet."

To love is to transform; to be a poet.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "A poet is a musician who can't sing."

A poet is a musician who can't sing.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!"

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!



What Is A Poet Quotes: "At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet."

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams."

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool."

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there."

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler."

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own."

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



What Is A Poet Quotes: "When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again."

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction."

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "A poet is a good citizen turned inside out."

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence."

And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy."

You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.



What Is A 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.



What Is A 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.



What Is A 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.



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

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



What Is A 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.



What Is A 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.



What Is A 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.



What Is A 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.



What Is A 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.



What Is A Poet Quotes: "Good poets borrow, great poets steal"

Good poets borrow, great poets steal



What Is A 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.



What Is A 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.



What Is A 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.