Quotes about poet
poetry time
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. Edward Hirsch
poet public wandered
He was a poet who serendipitously wandered into public life.
poetry-and-music world singers
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer. Jean Houston
poetry elements likes
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular. Ezra Pound
poet brutes
As we to the brutes, poets are to us. George Meredith
poetry poetic poet
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. Franz Grillparzer
poetry age honey
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey. Henry David Thoreau
poetry misrepresentation poetry-is
All poetry is misrepresentation. Jeremy Bentham
poetry
Any time is the time to make a poem. Gertrude Stein
poetry able stuff
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. Ishmael Reed
poetry published volume wrote
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. Tony Buzan
poetry despair born
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Jose Bergamin
poet persons
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. Jorge Luis Borges
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift
poetry has-beens
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
poet theory feels
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. John Ciardi
poetry would-be world
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Muriel Rukeyser
poetry poetic breathe
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
poetry phrases meter
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.... Nikki Giovanni
poet passing currents
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing. Marguerite Yourcenar
poetry-is translations
Poetry is what is gained in translation. Joseph Brodsky
poet great-poet
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. Kenneth Koch
poetry language poetry-is
poetry is where the language is renewed. Margaret Atwood
poet born orators
We are born poets. we become orators. Marcus Tullius Cicero
poetry way empty
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. Mary Oliver
poet young written
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet. Philip Levine
poetry police progress
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. Ted Hughes
poetry shepherds lambs
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson
poetry firsts finest
The finest poetry was first experience.
poetry argument
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
poetry mind poet
The true poem is the poet's mind.
poet minors knows
I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against. Leonard Cohen
poetry burning olive-branches
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love