Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Tom Verlaine

A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.

Life

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Virginia Woolf

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

W. H. Auden

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Helen Vendler

A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

...real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

The Dyer's Hand

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

The Dunciad

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

The Dream Songs: Poems

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Fear And Trembling / Repetition

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

Where even ravi (the sun) cannot reach, there will go a kavi (poet)." - Vimalananda

Aghora II: Kundalini

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

The Isle of Blood

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

The Sense of an Ending

when you're a poet you can dish out whatever's on your mind and you don't have to apologize for it

Skeletons

'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

No Laughing Matter

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?