982 Quotes About Poet

Standing is symbolic of life itself,Open space is just a distance between you and someone else

Жоден критик не відповів на головне запитання: як одна й та сама людина може одночасно писати вірші і стріляти в людей?

The so-called poet with his vague dreams and ideals is indeed no better than a harmless lunatic; the true poet is the worker, who grips life's throat and wrings out its secret, who selects austerely and composes concisely, whose work is as true and clean as razor-steel, albeit its sweep is vaster and swifter than the sun's!

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.

When the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace?

I believe that Gaston Cleric narrowly missed being a great poet, and I have sometimes thought that his outbursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication. How often have I seen him draw his dark brows together, fix his eyes upon some object on the wall or a figure in the carpet, and then flash into the lamplight the very image that was in his brain.

Only when you see the flower for what it is, you can see it's true beauty

when you're a poetyou can dish out whatever'son your mind and you don't have toapologize for it