Quotes About Poet

Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of it when it was owned by Norman Lear, the TV producer. She got a grant to go to Scotland, and she had to be gone six or nine months, so I moved in, and my job was just to make sure the ravage didn't overtake the place.

To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.

Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.

any poet who writes for the world beyond his own threshold should have something in his nature of the statesman.

Thus does unjust suspicion follow even the most blameless for, as the poet says, Who shall escape calumny? Who, indeed!

Shelley was also the wife of the great poet and rotter Percy Bysshe Shelley.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.

I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored

Praise to Válmíki,2bird of charming song,3 Who mounts

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To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

The poet is a little god.

El poeta representa el drama angustioso que se realiza entre el mundo y el cerebro humano, entre el mundo y su representación. El que no haya sentido el drama que se juega entre la cosa y la palabra, no podrá comprenderme.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.