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Poet Quotes

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Love Touch Everyone Poet Becomes

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

You Kind Same Romance Poet Writer

I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

Langston Hughes

Teacher Poetry Me Class Rhythm Poet

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

Me Think America Will Arrogant Poet

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

Poetry Practice Feel First Poet

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

Adventure Lost Poet Madman

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Life Men Forgotten Poet Speaks

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Thornton Wilder

Love Island Poet Would Poet Laureate

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Poor Poet Only Concerned Very

I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

Love Enjoy True Him Poet Just One

I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.

Effort I Can Lucky Hard Things Poet

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Lionel Trilling

Fantasy Mark Poet He Neurotic His

I'd kill to be a poet.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

Words Story Nothing Poet Get

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.

Technology Alone Free Poet Artists

I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed and who was the poet and all of that and whether Strauss or Wagner or French Belioz, Duparc or Debussy or whatever.

Singing Song Speak You Know Poet

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Art Words Person Shape Things Poet

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Admire Others Poet Above Wordsworth

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

People You Student Want Praise Poet

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

Maximilian Schell

Father Mother Director Poet Well

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Men Artist Born Inside Two Poet

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Poet Rather Than Profession

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

Poetry Always Poet Even Prose

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Letters Two Line Through Own Poet

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