A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
I don't fit into the age, race, or class of a bestselling poet.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.
All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.
A novelist, poet and playwright who writes equally well in Shona and English, Charles Mungoshi is Zimbabwe's finest and most versatile writer. His life project has been to interrogate the notion of family.
Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.
There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
God is the perfect poet.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
