Quotes About Poet

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Io amo la Morte... non per morbosità, ma perché spiega. Mi mostra la vanità del Denaro. Morte e Denaro sono gli eterni nemici. Non Morte e Vita. Non importa quello che c'è dietro la Morte, signor Bast, ma stia certo che il poeta, il musicista e il vagabondo saranno in essa più felici dell'uomo che non ha mai imparato a dire: io sono io.

Baldwin and King, no matter the temperamental distance between them, moved together as they struggled to make real the promise of American democracy. King was the preacher, Baldwin the poet—and, of course, the two are interchangeable.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Still must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak and cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as flowers and song and you; Still as of old his being give In Beauty's name, while she may live, Beauty that may not die as long As there are flowers and you and song.

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It's only that.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

David the son of Jesse… the sweet psalmist of Israel.

The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet.

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms.

I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.

Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym.

I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and reminds me of the grave and committed role of the poet. Although he was blind, Milton had one of the most unswerving gazes of all English poets.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.