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Being A Poet Quotes

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher  (Being A Poet Quotes) At times like these being a poetic bitch is all I have to hold on to  (Being A Poet Quotes) I think being a poet, period, is isolating  (Being A Poet Quotes) The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood  (Being A Poet Quotes) The true poet dreams being awake  (Being A Poet Quotes) For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one  (Being A Poet Quotes) The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes  (Being A Poet Quotes) For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing  (Being A Poet Quotes) I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened  (Being A Poet Quotes) If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed  (Being A Poet Quotes) My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet  (Being A Poet Quotes) Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called ‘real world’ of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.  (Being A Poet Quotes) Of course, I have to consider that I’ve written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.  (Being A Poet Quotes) When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet’s decision, it becomes the device’s decision.  (Being A Poet Quotes) For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.  (Being A Poet Quotes) The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood  (Being A Poet Quotes) It was dawning on me how uphill a poet’s path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I’d choose to be happy.  (Being A Poet Quotes) It’s the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.  (Being A Poet Quotes) Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet  (Being A Poet Quotes) Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet’s eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.  (Being A Poet Quotes) I wouldn’t be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don’t want any of those tags.  (Being A Poet Quotes) I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.  (Being A Poet Quotes) Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you’re good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.  (Being A Poet Quotes) I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.  (Being A Poet Quotes) Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn’t easy. But you can’t live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.  (Being A Poet Quotes) They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn’t involve any work, I’ll do it. (On being named Minnesota’s first Poet Laureate)  (Being A Poet Quotes) The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.  (Being A Poet Quotes) The interesting thing is that you don’t often meet a poet who doesn’t have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they’re afraid of being seen as light versifiers.  (Being A Poet Quotes) Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.  (Being A Poet Quotes) And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, And, being a poet, wrote on empty air With fragrance all the beauty of its soul  (Being A Poet Quotes)
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