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Poet Quotes

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Love Power World Strings Poet He

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

You Copyright Poet Here Sell Your

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

Beautiful Attention Real Poet His

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Heart Woman Hat Violence Body Poet

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.

Wish Become Need Always Poet Public

The 500 years following the fall of the Western Roman Empire were dubbed by the poet Petrarch 'dark.' Although the 14th-century Italian was referring to a literary decline, the term caught on to denote the seemingly backward turn the Western world took with regard to religious and technological developments.

World Fall Dark Turn Empire Poet

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Work Poet Profession Condition

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

People Enough Brilliant Out Poet He

As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.

Style Will Poet Natural Just Had

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

Great Feeling Independent Actor Poet

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

Tired Mystery Enigma Poet Masses

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Nature Great Poet Greatest Means

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

Speak Others Difficult Without Poet

I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

Myself Loved Will First Act Poet

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Teacher I Can Poet Well One Thing

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

Life My Life Poet Absolutely Crucial

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

I Am Better Poet Playwright Than Am

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry Anything Poet Autobiography

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

Stop Citizen Will Poet Being Once

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

Man Bad More Poet Being Bad Man

You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.

Work Great Yourself You Own Poet

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Wallace Stevens

Invisible Poet Priest

No bad man can be a good poet.

Boris Pasternak

Good Man Bad Poet Bad Man

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Reach Circle Said Now Birth Poet

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