Poet Quotes - Page 15

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

Poetry's object is truth.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

What can be explained is not poetry.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.