Poet Quotes - Page 5

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

Be with those who help your being.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.