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Poet Quotes

'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.

Late Wonder Poet Poem Text Alphabet

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

Best Opinion Generation Canada Poet

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

John Crowe Ransom

Too Much Critic Poet Much Too

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

Words Thought Meaning Right Poet

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

Robert Schumann

Life Better My Own See Own Poet

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

Myself Poetry Write Poet Call Well

I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'

Maurice Flanagan

Work Management Drama Satire Poet

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

Myself Simple Know Try Pretty Poet

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

Poetry People Writing I Can Poet

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I Am Free Need Poet Worker Am

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Soul Impossible Without Poet Being

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination Precision Poet Writer

The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and reminds me of the grave and committed role of the poet. Although he was blind, Milton had one of the most unswerving gazes of all English poets.

Me Blind You First See Poet

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great Time Man Profound Same Poet

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

World Poet Greatest Poets He Our

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

College Year Write Poet English

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

Love Poet Who I Love Sharon

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

James Broughton

Respect India Poet Gracious Being

Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

Mitchell Zuckoff

Son Song Nothing Theme Poet Got

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Work Happy Said Say Peculiar Poet

The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.

Better Rules More Poet Muscles Set

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

World Weird Years Poet Her Paid

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Poetry Roses True Scent Poet Bother

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Truth Gift Hide Within Slave Poet

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