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Poet Quotes

I’ve not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot Picture Quote #1

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet Picture Quote #1

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet Picture Quote #1

It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul Picture Quote #1

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power Picture Quote #1

... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs Picture Quote #1

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body Picture Quote #1

We aren’t suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it Picture Quote #1

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper Picture Quote #1

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art Picture Quote #1

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Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we’re not poets Picture Quote #1

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed Picture Quote #1

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole Picture Quote #1

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion... elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant Picture Quote #1

The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world Picture Quote #1

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves Picture Quote #1

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Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful Picture Quote #1

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy Picture Quote #1

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it Picture Quote #1

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic Picture Quote #1

A l’intérieur de ce corps vivait l’âme d’une intellectuelle et poète don’t personne n’avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected Picture Quote #1

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds Picture Quote #1

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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences Picture Quote #1

An hour’s conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy Picture Quote #1

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane Picture Quote #1

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it’s the unhappy ones who create the stories. I’m no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life Picture Quote #1

I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working at turning myself into a seer. You won’t understand any of this, and I’m almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It’s really not my fault Picture Quote #1

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship Picture Quote #1

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I’ve not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot (Poet Quotes) There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet (Poet Quotes) To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet (Poet Quotes) It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul (Poet Quotes) Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant (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 (Poet Quotes) The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power (Poet Quotes) ... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs (Poet Quotes) The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body (Poet Quotes) We aren’t suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it (Poet Quotes) The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper (Poet Quotes) The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art (Poet Quotes) Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we’re not poets (Poet Quotes) A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed (Poet Quotes) The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole (Poet Quotes) The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion... elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant (Poet Quotes) The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world (Poet Quotes) A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves (Poet Quotes) Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful (Poet Quotes) To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy (Poet Quotes) Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it (Poet Quotes) If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic (Poet Quotes) A l’intérieur de ce corps vivait l’âme d’une intellectuelle et poète don’t personne n’avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected (Poet Quotes) The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds (Poet Quotes) The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences (Poet Quotes) An hour’s conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy (Poet Quotes) While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane (Poet Quotes) As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it’s the unhappy ones who create the stories. I’m no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life (Poet Quotes) I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working at turning myself into a seer. You won’t understand any of this, and I’m almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It’s really not my fault (Poet Quotes) The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship (Poet Quotes)

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