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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.
I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.
What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
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.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
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.
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky's girlfriend.
I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.
All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
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