Poet Quotes - Page 18

Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.

the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.