982 Quotes About Poet

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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the world. I'm not a poet. Nor do I try to be one. I simply share what I do in my spare time. All poetry springs from genuine feelings. I'm only a woman expressing herself to the world.

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium.