Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.
Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather's, and I still carry it around with me.
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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.
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor.
