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The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense (Poet Quotes)
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet (Poet Quotes)
I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing (Poet Quotes)
Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well (Poet Quotes)
There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions (Poet Quotes)
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind (Poet Quotes)
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly (Poet Quotes)
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail (Poet Quotes)
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them (Poet Quotes)
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives (Poet Quotes)
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet (Poet Quotes)
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth (Poet Quotes)
Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart, and some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens (Poet Quotes)
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime (Poet Quotes)
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people (Poet Quotes)
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn’t really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is (Poet Quotes)
It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots (Poet Quotes)
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought (Poet Quotes)
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality (Poet Quotes)
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration (Poet Quotes)
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency (Poet Quotes)
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years (Poet Quotes)
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I’m back to being the poet I always thought I was (Poet Quotes)
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze (Poet Quotes)
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. and whether there is anybody with a receiver isn’t the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it (Poet Quotes)
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas (Poet Quotes)
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own (Poet Quotes)
The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets (Poet Quotes)
The clock of doom had struck as fated; the poet, without a sound, let fall his pistol on the ground (Poet Quotes)
The poet is always concerned with achieving a balance between the inner and the outer world; it is his business to hold in a single thought reality and justice (Poet Quotes)