Quotes of: True-poet Keyword

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man ...

The Dyer's Hand

Poets must be grounded in the education of the arts, drama, history, mysticism, esotericism, and philosophy. To gain knowledge and become learned of the above is easy - read. Poets should apply this knowledge to their work, so a poet will advance to ...

Feeding The Beasts

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your ve...

Brion Gysin Let the Mice In

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the re...

The American Poet Who Went Home Again

Poets know all about famous places without having been there.

Japanese

Slowly but surely the excrement of foreign poets will come to your village.

Malian

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

The Poet and The Painter

It was a Saturday, soft and silent, when the Wind spoke for the first time.

Death of the Poet King

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

Robert Adamson

The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.

G.K. Chesterton

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Hesiod

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Ernest Hemingway

Todd Anderson: [standing on his desk] Oh captain, my captain.

Dead Poets Society

John Keating: Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Dead Poets Society

Gloria: Don't you guys miss having girls around here? Meeks, Pitts: Yeah.

Dead Poets Society

Nolan: Gentlemen, what are the Four Pillars? Crowd: Tradition. Honor. Discipline. Excellence.

Dead Poets Society

Knox: C'mon, Chris, just give me one chance. If you don't like me after tonight I'll stay away forever. Chris Noel: Uh-huh. Knox: I promise. Dead Poets Honor. You come with me tonight and then if you don't wanna see me again I swear I'll bow out. Chr...

Dead Poets Society

ZENITH NOON beats out on its solar anvil the rays of light

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

If a dream stubbornly returns from seemingly weightless nights; then give him your trust.

From Poet's Hand

With its proud wings of the eagle, lighter than air; In harmony with the universe, and always be full-fledged.

From Poet's Hand