Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
I cannot
feed my life on being a poet.
Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride They had no poet, and they died
Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine
Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.
The drowning a Poet is naething.
The tender passion is much overrated by the poets. They have their living to earn, poor fellows.
There are some poets, and some of the good ones, who really act as careerists and go out and make a career, make sure they're well regarded.
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time
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.
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.
Her mouth is a honey-blossom,No doubt, as the poet singsBut within her lips, the petals,Lurks a cruel bee that stings.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!
In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets. . . . Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a ''read,'' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on the mind by reading his poetry. . . . A great mind is one that moulds the minds of others.
God is the poet, men are but the actors.
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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