Poet Quotes - Page 16

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Language is fossil Poetry.

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.