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Poet Quotes

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.

Great Me Become First Meat Poet

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

Mattie Stepanek

Want Remembered Poet Who Peacemaker

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

Poet Realized Wanted Really Until

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

Bad Others Pretty Poet Been Oh

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Man Medicine Mission Blues Poet He

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Age Old Age Say Old Whatever Poet

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Mind Body Poet Essence Us Mold

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

Hate Me Poet Being Covers

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Samuel McChord Crothers

Tired Writing Line Poet Begins He

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

Robin Coste Lewis

Thought Know Write Poet Because Had

The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world.

Best World Back Go Through Poet

At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.

Day End Of The Day End Cash Poet

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Death Audience High Own Poet Above

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Poetry Write Poet Well Like

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Detail Picture Look Beyond See Poet

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.

Life Music Day Together Poetry Poet

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.

Love Time Changes Poet Because Poem

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Truth Liar Poetry Always Poet Who

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

Future Age Faith Tradition Poet Saw

I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.

Think You Citizen Poet English

Every revolutionary poet or lyricist has been criticised for something. If you come up with something new, there will always be people who will object to it.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

People You New Will Always Poet

There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet.

Nothing Write Analytical Poet Apply

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Heart Myself Think Poet Being Still

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Poet Poem Interfere Baggage Cultural

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