Quotes About Poet

Since the diagnosis, Sylvie had returned to Leaves of Grass. She wanted to absorb Whitman's optimistic take on death; she wanted to share the poet's open mind about what came next. Whenever Sylvie felt a quiver of fear, she repeated to herself the line: And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some reason, quiet. No, not at all— It rang out, like the first waterfall, It crunched like the crust of bluish ice And it prayed with a swanlike voice, And it broke down right before our eyes.

The poet has to die many times, Foolish child: he himself chose this way - He couldn't bear the first outrage, He didn't know at what door he stood, He didn't understand what kind of road Would open up before him...

Posljednji susret bio nam je taj na obali gdje smo uvijek se sretali. Bio je visok Nevin vodostaj. Od poplave su u gradu strepili. Pri?ao je o ljetu i o tom da je za ženu pjesnikom biti - r?avo.

There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

the drunken poet (a genuis by daylight)

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted.

Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

O poeta é um fingidor. Finge tão completamente Que chega a fingir que é dor A dor que deveras sente.

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sózinho.

The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

Autopsychography The poet is a man who feigns And feigns so thoroughly, at last He manages to feign as pain The pain he really feels, And those who read what once he wrote Feel clearly, in the pain they read, Neither of the pains he felt, Only a pain they cannot sense. And thus, around its jolting track There runs, to keep our reason busy, The circling clockwork train of ours That men agree to call a heart.