He is the very Janus of poets he wears almost everywhere two faces and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
He is the very Janus of poets he wears almost everywhere two faces and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Poet, you are the life of this life, and you have
Triumphed over the ages of despite their severity.
Call it not vain they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
Poets. . . are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.
He was fascinated, ... He and Betty Kray a former director of the Academy of American Poets would talk about baking bread all the time.
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of those delicate spirits who are detractors of mathematics for saying this .... The imagination in a mathematician who creates makes no less difference than in a poet who invents.... Of all the great men of antiquity, Archimedes may be the one who most deserves to be placed beside Homer.
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.... He was naturally learnd he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature he looked inwards, and found her there.... He is many times flat, insipid his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him.
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
From my thirteenth year on, it was clear to me that I wanted to be a poet or nothing at all.
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
It is lifestyle journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving to avoid becoming a bore.
Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
... you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because its their own creation.
He was a poet and a storyteller and a good friend of ours. We all knew this was coming, hoping that it wouldn't, but yesterday afternoon in California the inevitable happened. So we're very sad about that.
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations ofpeople and things far outside their own self-centeredness.
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
In her lifetime, (Rice) said she wrote several million poems. The reason for that is she didn't write her letters in prose but in verse. If there was a death in the family, or a wedding or a newborn baby, her gift was a poem. She wrote 75 books and was one of the world's most prolific poets. Her poetry has been translated into 20 different languages.
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense.
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a 'suspension of belief.' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true.
Climbing Lushan The mountain looms firmly over the Great River. I climb four hundred bends to its green lush peak. With cool eyes I stare at the rim of mankind and the sea beyond. Hot wind blows rain in the sky and down to the river. Clouds over the nine tributaries and the floating yellow crane, where waves ripple toward the Three Wu. White mist flies up. Who knows where Tao, the ancient poet, has gone Is he farming in the Land of the Peach Blossoms July 1, 1959
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.
As a poet I am not primarily concerned with intellect. I'm not that smart. I want to make people laugh and cry.
If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it blame yourself admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
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