You become the best poet when you are at the peak of your emotion, whatever that may be.
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,
Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a very amusing sight: the cobblestones are standing upright like the quills of a porcupine. The bullets hitting against their edges displace and...
This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked up to. Young and upcoming poets must approac...
I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that has no end and no beginning, no purpose and no goal. I do not speak to you, and you do not speak to me; we listen only to the music of silence. Silen...
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teac...
I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the m...
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, M...
Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! Arouse for you must justify me you must a...
To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
