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Poet Quotes

All a poet can do today is warn.

Today Poet Warn

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

I Am Poetry First Poet Books Four

Every contemporary poet is a door to another poet.

Door Poet Contemporary Every Another

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Love You Never Take Poet Notes

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

First Poet Wanted Known Jim

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry.

Poetry Someone Intention Say Poet

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Better Poet Who Than Himself Orator

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

Michelle Dockery

Think Someone Drama Said Sound Poet

Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

Science Luck Science Fiction Poet

A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Always Poet Cannot Requirements He

The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.

Shadow Sun Down Earth Poet Like

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Education California High Poet Halls

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.

Good Writing Reading Become Poet

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life Live Man Human Human Life Poet

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

Live Try Human Poet Stay Civilian

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

I Am Losing Citizenship Poet Soviet

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

College Language Poet Atmosphere

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

Heart Man Out Individual Poet Lies

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

W. Somerset Maugham

Step Poet Only Writer Prose Passes

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

Claudia Rankine

Money You Want Become Poet Make

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I Am Language Born Interaction Poet

Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.

Work Want Understand Minds Poet

Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

Me Writing Acting Poet Level Only

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

Words Knowing Anything Own Poet Nor

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