684 Quotes About Poets

When I reached the vestibule of my apartment building, the campus police closed in on me. I heard Professor Edelstein shout, it's okay, he's a poet. Matter of fact, the best black ... the best poet writing today." The cops instantly backed off. I was protected by poetic immunity. I had permission to act crazy.

Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.

I think of myself as a descendant of traditions that would not have wanted me. Right? So, as long as I'm a queer writer, I'm Whitman's descendant. And he can't do nothing about it.

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy

A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

Love doesn’t make you a poet; it makes you poetry.

God has it in for the poets, that's obvious, but the Bombaywallahs hold a special place in his dispensation.