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Poet Quotes

I don't fit into the age, race, or class of a bestselling poet.

Age Class Race Poet Fit

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

Jacques Maritain

Together Sleep Him Single Out Poet

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.

Luis Alberto Urrea

God History Religion Believe Poet

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.

Community Black Play Semester Poet

I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.

Myself See I See Poet Songwriter

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

Edward Dahlberg

Nature Bad Poet Mimicking

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Tragedy Worst Misunderstood Poet

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Life Poetry Writing Journalism Poet

Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.

Art Find Fiction Poet Social Common

I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

Think Moments Person Rare Poet Poem

I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.

Jonathan Galassi

Work Together Book Slow First Poet

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

Man Write Dragon Poet Pushing Bomb

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

Shoes Me American Tennis Scary Poet

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

Think Will Never Academic Poet Like

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Live Myself Poetry Die First Poet

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Broken Mouth Own Poet Trapeze His

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

Day April First Typewriter Poet

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.

Father Poetry Artist Names Poet

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Wislawa Szymborska

Words Fighting Bad Poet Against Who

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Great Experience Solitude World Poet

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

William Hazlitt

Poet Only Player Envies

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Truth Art Poetry Problem Seem Poet

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

I Am Never High Poet Stunts Wire

A mathematician, like a painter or 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

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