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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one’s age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth (Poet Quotes)
I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true (Poet Quotes)
A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times (Poet Quotes)
As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one’s language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence (Poet Quotes)
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas (Poet Quotes)
A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true (Poet Quotes)
The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life (Poet Quotes)
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn (Poet Quotes)
Yeats was the greatest poet of our times... certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language (Poet Quotes)
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest (Poet Quotes)
It’s easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write (Poet Quotes)
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening (Poet Quotes)
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot (Poet Quotes)
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal (Poet Quotes)
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship (Poet Quotes)
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling (Poet Quotes)
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again (Poet Quotes)
The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics (Poet Quotes)
I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing (Poet Quotes)
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors (Poet Quotes)
Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives (Poet Quotes)
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who’s successful (Poet Quotes)
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one’s own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss (Poet Quotes)
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream (Poet Quotes)
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own (Poet Quotes)
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry (Poet Quotes)
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings (Poet Quotes)
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet (Poet Quotes)
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle (Poet Quotes)
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry (Poet Quotes)