Poet Quotes - Page 22

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.