Quotes About Poet

Mi mente no debe morir porque soy escritora. Soy el poeta que necesita ver.

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

Arturo says, "There follows, I am sad to say, a very long ride on a very slow road…to your final place of rest." He sighs, for he has spoken the truth for all men. Less understands: he has been assigned a poet.

To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination: he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.

A great poet must have the ear of a wild Arab listening in the silent desert, the eye of a North American Indian tracing the footsteps of an enemy upon the leaves that strew the forest, the touch of a blind man feeling the face of a darling child.

Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future. (Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing)

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart The human power is revealed by poet Il potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta

a man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet.

A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.

There is no true poet in whom fancy is not close akin to faith.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone

Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens to let us in.

What greater violence can be done to the poet's experience than to drag it into an early morning classroom and to go after it as an item on its way to a Final Examination? …It is the experience, not the Final Examination, that counts.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

am born a poet, of a low class without doubt yet a poet. This is my nature and vocation")

Poet and kings are but the clerks of Time.