Poet Quotes - Page 2

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say ... something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand. Commenting to him about the poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.

Whatever is not stone is light

When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.