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Poet Quotes

Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste Picture Quote #1

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what’s really on my mind Picture Quote #1

Yes, it is a painful lot to be a poet and to love both God and man by the farthest northern seas! Picture Quote #1

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds Picture Quote #1

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet Picture Quote #1

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you’re a professor, and one frankly doesn’t get a lot of girls as a poet Picture Quote #1

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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’ve always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don’t think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet Picture Quote #1

I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants Picture Quote #1

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet Picture Quote #1

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry Picture Quote #1

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One can’t write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don’t like poetry Picture Quote #1

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry Picture Quote #1

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather Picture Quote #1

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide Picture Quote #1

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth Picture Quote #1

There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory Picture Quote #1

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There’s not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library Picture Quote #1

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential Picture Quote #1

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down Picture Quote #1

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn’t betray things that are true to me as a poet Picture Quote #1

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Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was Picture Quote #1

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try Picture Quote #1

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet Picture Quote #1

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things Picture Quote #1

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue Picture Quote #1

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue Picture Quote #1

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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste (Poet Quotes) I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what’s really on my mind (Poet Quotes) Yes, it is a painful lot to be a poet and to love both God and man by the farthest northern seas! (Poet Quotes) A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds (Poet Quotes) All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet (Poet Quotes) But one does not make living writing poetry unless you’re a professor, and one frankly doesn’t get a lot of girls as a poet (Poet Quotes) Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making (Poet Quotes) 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 (Poet Quotes) I’ve always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don’t think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet (Poet Quotes) I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants (Poet Quotes) Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet (Poet Quotes) None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry (Poet Quotes) One can’t write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don’t like poetry (Poet Quotes) Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry (Poet Quotes) The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather (Poet Quotes) The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide (Poet Quotes) There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth (Poet Quotes) There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory (Poet Quotes) There’s not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library (Poet Quotes) To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential (Poet Quotes) What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down (Poet Quotes) When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images (Poet Quotes) 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 (Poet Quotes) I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn’t betray things that are true to me as a poet (Poet Quotes) Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was (Poet Quotes) I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try (Poet Quotes) It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet (Poet Quotes) An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things (Poet Quotes) From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue (Poet Quotes) The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue (Poet Quotes)

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