Quotes about poet
poet sad
Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet Alphonse Lamartine
poet poets today truest
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful. Wilfred Owen
poetry invisible keepsakes
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Carl Sandburg
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Jameson
poetry doe veils
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White
poetry bankers mysterious
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Allen Tate
poet scientist
Scientist alone is true poet. Allen Ginsberg
poetry pardon burned
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Alexander Pope
poetry together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Christopher Morley
poetry labels coins
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. Anne Sexton
poetry century prose
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare
poet finest
Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets. Annie Dillard
poet persons
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems. Robert Frost
poetry emotion found
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
poetry reason rhyme
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. Thomas More
poetry tests genuine
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
poetry crafts conscious
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
poetry literature language
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.
poetry done certain
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
poetry feelings may
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
poetry problem haiku
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then Roger McGough
poetry musical
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. Thomas Carlyle
poetry great-poet can-do
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Stephen Spender
poetry poetic breathe
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray
poetry mind certain
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas B. Macaulay
poetry language states
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Stephane Mallarme
poet abandon
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.
poetry
The true poem rests between the words. Vanna Bonta
poet best-performance performances
Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen. Utah Phillips
poet
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into. Sylvia Plath
poetry
The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control. Rumi