I used to be a poet. My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold. Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade. Now I am old... drunk on wine and candle fumes. Alone in this barren room, I speak my psal...
[Keating stands on his desk] John Keating: Why do I stand up here? Anybody? Dalton: To feel taller! John Keating: No! [Dings a bell with his foot] John Keating: Thank you for playing Mr. Dalton. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must cons...
Homer, the aged poet: Where are my heroes? Where are you, my children? Where are my own, the curious ones, the first, the original ones? Name me, muse, the immortal singer who, abandoned by those who listened to him, lost his voice. He who, from the ...
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal t...
Give a poet a pen
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I learn life from the poets.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.
I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
Poets should be crazy-but only in their poems.
The world will not be saved by poets or poetry.
I am an i poet.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
