Quotes About Poet

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.