What Is Poet Quotes

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

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

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

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

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

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

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

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

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.

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

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

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

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.