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It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score  (Poet Quotes) It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings  (Poet Quotes) States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force  (Poet Quotes) The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life  (Poet Quotes) The poet is a God, or, the young poet is a God. The old poet is a tramp  (Poet Quotes) For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion  (Poet Quotes) One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder  (Poet Quotes) Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him  (Poet Quotes) To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men  (Poet Quotes) People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it’s there  (Poet Quotes) Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he’s a poet... He is very easy to work for  (Poet Quotes) It is important for the poet not to be emotional because you cannot see the world clearly with tears in your eyes  (Poet Quotes) It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind  (Poet Quotes) The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest  (Poet Quotes) It is impossible for a poet to characterize his own work. From other people I gather that I am a gloomy poet, if not a tragic one  (Poet Quotes) The poet felt completely free now as he stood there on the deck in his collar and boots, sailing past new and ever newer districts; even if he did not own this land’s resources, he owned its beauty  (Poet Quotes) I have a carpe diem mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet  (Poet Quotes) Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich  (Poet Quotes) God’s poet is silence! His song is unspoken and yet so profound, and so loud, and so far, that it thrills you and fills you in measures unbroken? the unceasing song of the first morning star  (Poet Quotes) Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life... The companion... The tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel  (Poet Quotes) It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief  (Poet Quotes) He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on the mind by reading his poetry... A great mind is one that moulds the minds of others  (Poet Quotes) He who draws noble delights from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life  (Poet Quotes) What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement  (Poet Quotes) Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus  (Poet Quotes) To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer  (Poet Quotes) A poet, naturalist and historian, who scarcely left any style of writing untouched and touched nothing that he did not adorn  (Poet Quotes) A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity  (Poet Quotes) He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime  (Poet Quotes) Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor  (Poet Quotes)
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