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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded (Poet Quotes)
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time (Poet Quotes)
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don’t understand (Poet Quotes)
If you like to read, sometimes it’s interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination (Poet Quotes)
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living (Poet Quotes)
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose (Poet Quotes)
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do (Poet Quotes)
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? (Poet Quotes)
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 (Poet Quotes)
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten (Poet Quotes)
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning (Poet Quotes)
It’s the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate (Poet Quotes)
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable (Poet Quotes)
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events (Poet Quotes)
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life (Poet Quotes)
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke (Poet Quotes)
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist (Poet Quotes)
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not? (Poet Quotes)
They think I’m going to be a schoolteacher but I’m going to be a poet (Poet Quotes)
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn’t exist (Poet Quotes)
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet (Poet Quotes)
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin (Poet Quotes)
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can (Poet Quotes)
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven (Poet Quotes)
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet (Poet Quotes)
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so (Poet Quotes)
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning (Poet Quotes)
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet’s mind kindled by contact with a brother poet (Poet Quotes)
I’m tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery (Poet Quotes)
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered (Poet Quotes)