I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.
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.
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.
Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973.
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.
Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.
Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.
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.
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.
There were poets before Homer.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Poets sing our human music for us.