Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.

Love

A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry. David J Delaney ©

Love

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

Love

You don't have to be a poet to express you feelings to her, just say whats in your mind and she will relate.

Unarine Ramaru

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Vladimir Nabokov

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

W.H. Auden

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

Wislawa Szymborska

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Wislawa Szymborska

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

Dylan Moran

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

Patti Smith

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us.

Thom Gunn

We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its own rhythm that drums like a heartbeat.

Choosing Up Sides

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

Decoded

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

Essential Lentz: Collected Literary Works

...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...

A Familiar Rain

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

The Graveyard Book