Poet Quotes - Page 8

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Poetry is life distilled.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.