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Poet Quotes

I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

Honor Country Glory Will Bring Poet

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Focus Uncomfortable Poet Poem

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Sin Original Poet Thinker Most

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

Responsibility Poetry American Poet

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Poetry Serious Little Poet Notebooks

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Love Poetry Writing Write Poet He

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

Bryant H. McGill

Talent True Poet Writer Ear

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Man Poetry World Speak Through Poet

Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms.

Freedom Yourself Key You Days Poet

It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

Saint-John Perse

Age Enough Guilty Conscience Poet

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Myself Writing Feel Always Out Poet

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

Breathing Ordinary Poet Natural Us

I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.

William Jay Smith

Children Old Poet Being Sense Would

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Art Will Take Poet Only Knows

Being a poet, the advantages of dyslexia are many, affording me sensitivity to the musical nuances of language and the ability to juggle complicated ideas and narratives simultaneously.

Me Ideas Language Complicated Poet

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

Garth Risk Hallberg

America Week Fall Living Poet Where

I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to make a living as a poet.

Tough You Know Living Out Poet

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Music Peace Artist Write Paint Poet

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

Values Kind Poet Somebody Who Like

People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

Success People Never See Poet Been

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

Man Voice Think Talk Hearing Poet

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.

Poetry You Place Evidence Act Poet

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Best Personality Poetry Think Poet

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

God Great Day Boredom Creation Poet

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