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.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.
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.
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.
As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.
On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.
Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity
That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us
It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.
But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
