Poet Quotes - Page 24

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

All men are poets at heart.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.