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Poet Quotes

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

Me American Young More Always Poet

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell

Man Out Lightning Standing Poet Who

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Society Desire Personal Become Poet

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Great Limits Language Someone Poet

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Myself Thought Ordinary Poet Sure

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry Poet Finally Measured He How

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

I Am Poetry Memory People Up Poet

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

Me Become Decide Foolish Poet

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

Poetry People Reading More Poet Lot

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Poetry Poet Necessary

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Athens China Poet Ancient Would

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Edgar Allan Poe

Fire World Admire Reason Poet

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

Beauty Courage Poet Well Permission

Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

Richard Flanagan

Genius Out Poet Who Many Sort

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

Thought More Earn Poet Would Than

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

Good Bad Know Admire Will Poet

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Krist Novoselic

Value Me Sentimental Poet He Raised

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

People Me Poet Being Different Than

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

Relationship Sad Go Personal Poet

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

John Drinkwater

Life Perfect Poet Word He Selection

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

George Meredith

Science Man Wrong Nothing Gone Poet

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Poetry Suffering Enough You Poet

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

Franz Grillparzer

Inside Open Audience Task Turn Poet

My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.

Business Think Name Out Poet Just

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