Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.
Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.
I learn life from the poets.
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.
Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.
It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from happening. Yet I believe that even if poetry did not do this, it would be vital to our survival.
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
They are poets of gesture.
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better. '
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.
I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally.
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.
In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.