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Poet Quotes

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.

Poetry Mom Short Musically Poet

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Poetry Experiment Humour Own Poet

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Poetry Poet He Listens Invent

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Dream Poet Agony Valentine Written

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Journey Point Poet Departure Arrival

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Myself Decision Language Doing Poet

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Cool Thought Picture Up Pretty Poet

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Professional Poet Objects Verbal

Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever. We are in the Chinese astrology of dogs, and we are forever snapping at each other.

Argument Will She Dogs Engage Poet

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

Great Stupid Poet Politically

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

I Am People Person Say Naked Poet

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Tradition Own Poet Internationalism

I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet.

Myself Sometimes Never Mantra Poet

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

Me Name Poet Wanted Maria After

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Wislawa Szymborska

Early Living Earning Poet Started

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Experience Risks Poetry Liberty Poet

To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.

William Jay Smith

Life End Permanent In The End Poet

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Work Time Spirit Him Poet May

The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.

Nothing Never Poet Therefore

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Ideas More Permanent Patterns Poet

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Dream Poet Being Press Playwright

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

Man Why Admire Him Poet Seems

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

You Young Need Poet Publication

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Mind Rich Aesthetic No Sense Poet

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