Quotes About Inspiration

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.

I want young children to savor and enjoy Tagore like I did since I was a child. He was too great a poet of India to be kept limited to Bengal. Everybody should read and celebrate him.

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.