Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
I feel very connected to poets across the country.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
