Quotes About Poet

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

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

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.