Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet
Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.
A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry. David J Delaney ©
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.
You don't have to be a poet to express you feelings to her, just say whats in your mind and she will relate.
while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.
