For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.
I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.
. . . he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero-really look-and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.
I was a piano player before I was a poet.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a born poet, and a born writer. The Canoe is just the start of what I hope to be a long idyllic journey through the love and soul of the human heart.