Poet Quotes - Page 17

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.

Poetry is mostly hunches.

The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

We must listen to poets.

a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.

A poem should not mean but be.