Quotes About Poet

One must love a poet on its own terms.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

English poet John Milton in Paradise Lost.

A diferencia del poeta moderno, no vive aquejado por el ansia de originalidad. Sabe que su canto no es suyo sólo. La conciencia étnica, forjadora del mito, ha cumplido antes que él naciera, el trabajo principal; ha creado los objetos bellos. Su papel queda reducido a la escrupulosidad de un artífice.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Heidegger sostiene que el hombre es un ser para la muerte; todo poeta, sin embargo, crea la resurrección, entona ante la muerte un hurra victorioso. Y si alguno piensa que exagero, quedará preso de los desastres, del demonio y de los círculos infernales.

Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says ' Poeta nascitur non fit ' the translation of which is— the poet is born, not made.

Esta sera mi venganza: Que un dia llegue a tus manos el libro de un poeta famoso y leas estas lineas que el autor escribio para ti y tu no lo sepas!

Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

I think of myself as a reporter. I just rhyme my reports and give them a beat.

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.

Exhuming a few symbolic tidbits from the late poet Bert Meyers's works, lest we forget… 'To My Enemies' Maddened by you for whom the cash register, with its clerical bells, is a national church; you, whose instant smile cracks the earth at my feet... ___ 'Homecoming' My home was a watercolor I left in the rain ... ____ 'Signature' And my obsession's a line I can't revise.

Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"!

I discovered our dear poet in my office, a simple clerk.

often women aren't allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn't that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.

Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

I became a poet in Pittsburgh. When I lived in the South, I was a basketball player and primarily a jock. An English teacher essentially suggested that I send the poems that I'd been writing - really just for him - to a few programs, so that when I wound up in Pittsburgh, it's where I figured out that I could actually be a poet.

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live in a distraction.