Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles
Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.
A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be time...
Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.
...And we left the light for the night of the street
That which endures forever; it is released from nebulous name-giving.
Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
John Keating: Mr. Meeks, time to inherit the earth.
Did you know that Bharatiyar used the pen name “Shelley-dasan”? He admired the poems of Shelley so deeply that he wrote under the name “Shelley’s servant”. Wasn’t that a wonderful gesture of humility by someone who was such a great poet h...
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become." Later, on his last disk to his lover the week before he died, Wu said: "Words are the only bu...
I do not think, I note (Je ne pense pas; je note)
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
A poem needs as well as of content.
Everyone should follow his predetermined path.
The first and the last steps on the ladder of life are the most insightful.
And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.
