Poet Quotes - Page 26

The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

The true poem rests between the words.

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

I’m not a poet—I’m a drifter in the arts.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't.