Poet Quotes - Page 12

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.

Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.