Quotes of: Poet-laureate Keyword

I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudholes and ponds, the jell and slime of life shimmering in gravid expectation. Everywhere I looked, life sprang from something not life...

Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories

I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page.

The Calligraphy of God

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel

We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

A Company of Swans

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

Among the world's evils—fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation— smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school.

The Financial Lives of the Poets

... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...

A Familiar Rain

This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.

The Garden Intrigue

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.

Born in Fire

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.

Harvey Pekar

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

The Advancement Of Learning

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

Sex with an ex Is it ever really painless or just inviting stress? I mean, really Who does that? Oh wait, I’m sure if they could, most everyone would...

Hungover Poet

With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry.

I Love You Too

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Killosophy

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

The Savage Detectives

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Memoirs of a Geisha

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare