Quotes about poet
poetry machines bees
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. Mason Cooley
poetry deeds titles
Title deeds generally outlast poems.
poetry professors daring
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
poetry soul single-relationship
Every single soul is a poem. Michael Franti
poetry needs world
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad. Patricia MacLachlan
poet really-great creatures
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. Oscar Wilde
poetry touching charm
Gently touching with the charm of poetry. Lucretius
poetry blithe subjects
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. Michel de Montaigne
poet genre americana
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre Michael Nesmith
poet poets useful
Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
poetry time
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. Edward Hirsch
poetry ted writes
Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people. Dave Evans
poetry served
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.
poetry
Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy. Robert Pinsky
poetry
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
poetry
Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. Juan Felipe Herrera
poetry
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
poet public wandered
He was a poet who serendipitously wandered into public life.
poetry
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. Janine Turner
poet words
If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words. Johnny Pesky
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
poet
We must listen to poets. Gaston Bachelard
poet
Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Federico Fellini
poetry wells prose
Poetry must be as well written as prose. Ezra Pound
poetry firsts break
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave
poet not-interested
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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.
poet brutes
As we to the brutes, poets are to us. George Meredith
poetry identity literature
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them. George Steiner
poetry use records
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.
poetry indispensable poetry-is
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. Jean Cocteau
poetry poetic invention
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
poetry poet grownups
There are poets and there are grownups.