Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
