Poet Quotes - Page 7

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.