Poet Quotes - Page 32

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.