Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.
I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. " - W. H. Auden "A poem. . . begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. . . It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.
Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !
I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.
One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.
Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger. , Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen. ]
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.
I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
