63 Quotes About Poets-and-poetry

the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write.

A single poem, alonecan turn tidesscatter galaxiesand burst forth with riversfrom paradise.

poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.

And stay, my dearstay...forever, as my quiet song,in my lilac dawn.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

Know that love would stick no matter how hard you are to break into, know that love would stick no matter how protective you have become of your own self. Love would find its way like nothing ever has.

The statement that the process does not involve the poet as subject, to the extent to which that is true, precludes direct egotism. On the other hand, without indirect egotism there can be no poetry. There can be no poetry without the personality of the poet, and that, quite simply, is why the definition of poetry has not been found and why, in short, there is none.