Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

The Power of Myth

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

Poet in New York

The poet is rather one who inspires than one inspired.

Ralentir, Travaux = Slow, Under Construction

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

The Transcendent Unity of Religions

Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.

A Touch of Wonder

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

War in Heaven

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Women

Dear Gris, if there's one thing I can't abide it's a bad poet.

When the Sea Is Rising Red

Must be going crazy--- my favorite poet lately has been me!

Westlake: Poems by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Lascelles Abercrombie

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Lafcadio Hearn

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

Jewel

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.

Octavio Paz

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

P. J. Harvey

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Paul Muldoon

Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.

Philip Pullman

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Roy Harper

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.

Robert Lynd

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

Seamus Heaney

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Sofia Kovalevskaya