Quotes of: True-poet Keyword

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

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

The Book of Disquiet

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

Busman's Honeymoon

I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.

Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

Robert E. Howard

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.

James Fenton

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

Alex Grey

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

David Amram

Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

Paul Engle

Emily Dickinson , in my opinion, is the perfect (although admittedly slightly cliche) poet for lonely fat girls.

Artichoke's Heart

I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored

Anything for You, Ma'am: An IITian's Love Story

I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse.

Aphorisms of a Restless Soul

It is 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

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

Hyperion

The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.

Ion

There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or die trying

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