Zitat des Tages über Dichter / Poet:
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
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.
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.
As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo, I've never met a nice poet.
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
