At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems are confessional? It's a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer. ' He is simply an 'artist. ' All of life will be open to him.
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat. , Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit. ]
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language. . . the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.