Quotes About Poetry

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.

I want young children to savor and enjoy Tagore like I did since I was a child. He was too great a poet of India to be kept limited to Bengal. Everybody should read and celebrate him.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.