Quotes About Poet

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

nevertheless allows him to be considered a poet, with everything that status entails. And it's an enviable status. Because even if you lead a miserable life, it protects you from the disgrace associated with that miserable life, and many, once they've acquired it, sit back and don't write another thing their whole lives.

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

For a good poet's made, as well as born.

A good poet's made as well as born.

Angleton was a little like one of the rare orchids he would later cultivate with such dedication: an exotic hybrid, a Mexican-Apache-Midwestern English-sounding poet-spy, rare and remarkable, alluring to some but faintly sinister to those who preferred simpler flora.

With victory, the denizens of Room 13 emerged, blinking, into the light. An anonymous poet in Section 17M marked the occasion with a verse entitled "De Profundibus." In the depths of the fusty dungeons, In the bowels of NID Where wild surmise or blatant lies Are digested for those at sea, The in-trays are all empty, The dreary toil is done, And with mental daze and bleary gaze The Troglodytes see the sun.

The true power of language, its well of inspiration, for me, lie in its conscious or unconscious errors, cracks, imperfections. I am a poet, an American poet, because I have a defective ear.

I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said he was just a punk gangster. People said the same thing about Francois Villon, and he's now considered the best French Romantic poet of all time.

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Mucho más importante que el pensamiento es <>; mucho más importante que el filósofo, el poeta.

Mucho más importante que el pensamiento es lo que da que pensar; mucho más importante que el filósofo, el poeta.

Nací para poeta o para muerto, escogí lo difícil —supervivo de todos los naufragios—, y sigo con mis versos, vivita y coleando. Nací para puta o payaso, escogí lo difícil —hacer reír a los clientes desahuciados—, y sigo con mis trucos, sacando una paloma del refajo. Nací para nada o soldado, y escogí lo difícil —no ser apenas nada en el tablado—, y sigo entre fusiles y pistolas sin mancharme las manos.

Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash, the poet Sadiq Khan once wrote. But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

'A Death in the Gunj' is set in 1979 and we had to mute a joke that referred to Indira Gandhi. The censors also wouldn't allow the tortoise that some of the characters talk about to be called Kalidas because it's the name of a respected poet.