Quotes About Poet

I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane. He's had many lives. My dad's a capitalist to his bone, but he's also a human to his bone.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

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

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

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

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.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

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 admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

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.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.