Poet Quotes - Page 11

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

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

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

They are poets of gesture.

What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Every single soul is a poem.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.