Quotes About Poet

A world to be born under your footsteps. ?The poet is the one who breaks through our habits. ?The only menace is inertia.

But if you are unable to hypothesize it, the facts that I actually experienced will in the end be no more than a hallucination of the incoherent decadence of a poet whose central nerves are damaged by morphine addiction.

Poet Laureate John Betjeman composed a "Wedding Ode of Joy" to celebrate the marriage. His verses ended by casting back to Charles's 1969 investiture in Wales when "you knelt a boy, you rose a man. And thus your lonelier life began." Now, he wrote, "The scene has changed, the outlook cleared. The loneliness has disappeared." He could not have been more mistaken.

A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

My pecker's a poet." "How's that?" "He's a longfellow.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power… imagination.

Beneath this sodA poet lies, or that which once seemed he—Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S.T.C.!That he, who many a year, with toil of breath,Found death in life, may here find life in death.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Ei sovi että runoilijan talosta kuuluu valitusta

niin kuin Lesboksen runoilija, kaikkia muita etevämpi

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

The genius of the Spanish writer has always flourished through excessive rhetoric, which expresses a fundamental element in our nature and in our culture. If you think of our great writers, all of them are great rhetoricians. Think of Pablo Neruda, for instance, a great poet. It is the exuberance, the excess. Creation is something that appears like a natural phenomena, a kind of transpiration of nature more than an intellectual exercise.

The Latin poet wrote 'Amor vincit omnia,' or 'Love conquers all.' He did not write, 'Love frees all' or 'liberates' all, and therein lies the first degree of our flagrant misunderstanding. Conquer: to defeat, subjugate, massacre, cream, make mincemeat out of. Surely

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

Like any fine artist, he controlled the tension of the audience's longing. You desired, unwittingly, a certain kind of roll or climb, or a return to a certain portion of the air, and he fulfilled your hope slantingly, like a poet, or evaded it until you thought you would burst, and then fulfilled it surprisingly, so you gasped and cried out.