Quotes About Poet

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.