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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. (Poet Quotes)
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature. (Poet Quotes)
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood (Poet Quotes)
My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet (Poet Quotes)
It’s the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. (Poet Quotes)
Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet (Poet Quotes)
I wouldn’t be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don’t want any of those tags. (Poet Quotes)
I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet. (Poet Quotes)
Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you’re good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things. (Poet Quotes)
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue. (Poet Quotes)
Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn’t easy. But you can’t live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession. (Poet Quotes)
They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn’t involve any work, I’ll do it. (On being named Minnesota’s first Poet Laureate) (Poet Quotes)
The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination. (Poet Quotes)
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone. (Poet Quotes)
I don’t think I’d ever get any better as a poet if I didn’t push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I’m stubborn. (Poet Quotes)
Every dude in your high school wasn’t striving to be the best poet because then he’d get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case. (Poet Quotes)
Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi’s way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch. (Poet Quotes)
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. (Poet Quotes)
... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ... (Poet Quotes)
Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They’re so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not. (Poet Quotes)
I’d spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order. (Poet Quotes)
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. (Poet Quotes)
The trouble with poetry is it’s often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works. (Poet Quotes)
[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona. (Poet Quotes)
You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet; because poetry is beyond hooks and holes. (Poet Quotes)
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. (Poet Quotes)
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. (Poet Quotes)
It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment. (Poet Quotes)
I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that’s something someone else has to call you. It’s like bragging. (Poet Quotes)
Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It’s not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens. (Poet Quotes)