Quotes About Poet

Un poète mort n'écrit plus. D'où l'importance de rester vivant.

Dintre oameni, cel mai mare este poetul, un poet liric, adica un adevarat poet. Un poet este un om care nu pastreaza in inima sa secrete pentru Dumnezeu si care, cantandu'si aleanul, nadejdile si amintirile, le curata de coaja si le limpezeste de toata minciuna. Cantarile sale sunt cantarile tale si ale mele

For Mark Strand, the poet's responsibility to be a witness, a recorder of experience, is part of the broader responsibility we all have for keeping the universe ordered through our consciousness:

Walachia, where, Satan claimed, every man is born a poet, lives like a thief, and dies a vampire.

And when a poet dies, deep in the night a lone black bird wakes up in the thicket and sings for all it's worth — Miroslav Holub, from "Interferon," Poems Before and After (Bloodaxe Books, 2006)

Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the fact that my Poet—every poet—is an insomniac. My own reads or wanders about our apartment for the best part of most nights. She told me she often feels she would give up every poem she's ever written for one good night's sleep.

you learned from a Korean poet in Seoul: that one does not bury the mother's body in the ground but in the chest, or--like you-- you carry her corpse on your back.

the poet I saw once... but whose words have long been in my mind, windows of invincible candles...

Gortrek gave him a look. 'Never get into a war of words with a poet, Ironbreaker. You can't win.

BE Lost On a painted sky Where the clouds are hung For the poet's eye You may find him If you may find him There On a distant shore By the wings of dreams Through an open door You may know him If you may

Fionn learned that to make a poet you need: Fire of Song, Light of Knowledge and the Art of Recitation

his belief in what the poet called the holiness of the heart's affections

Forse ogni poeta è condannato all'insoddisfazione. Dev'essere per colpa della luce che li abbaglia

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much of a muse, but then, I weren't much of a poet.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

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

You feel you're learning everything about love as you watch him, from the other side. He imagines you leaving your cozy London world for a man in his thirties who has no real job, who still travels on buses, who's never found a firm footing with his life. The poet, the dreamer, and you would have fallen for it once. But you're too old, now. You just want to fuck.

The details make life holy. If you want a little happiness in life don't forget to look at the little things. It is a poet's work to see the incidental, pluck it, place an appropriate silence around both sides and see the profound in what passes for a passing moment. It is an artist's job to as much discover art as create it. Prayer is a way of making the common profound by pausing, tying knots around a moment, turning our life into a string of pearls.

You give a poet a bucket of worms, he'll probably put the whole bucket on the end of the hook.

All other statements of intention, however fully documented, are suspect. The poet may change his mind or mood; he may have intended one thing and done another, and then rationalised what he did.

Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.

Pentru poet, obiectivitatea este totul, pentru filoyof, subiectivitatea. Poertul este glasul universului, filoyoful este glasul Unului elementar, al principiului.

i'm a poet who writes in english come to share the worlds witchu

Why didn't an epic poet ever write a word about our lives?