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Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination.
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A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.
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A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times.
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A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.
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A poet! I should have known you for a poet by how your body moved.
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The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
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The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
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Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
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In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.
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A good poet's made as well as born.
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Be a poet in action as well as in words.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.
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What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
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Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn't know what else to be.
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STUFF POETS STILL LIKE: POETRY
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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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To be a poet you have to experiment.
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Poets are light amidst darkness
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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
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A poet is someone whose words can grasp & pull the thread of a person's soul & make them unravel with delight.
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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
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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.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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I am a poet
writing frenetic free verse
I am pretentious
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Me - the poet - lost for words.
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I am merely a poet dying far from home.
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I am poetry,
surrounding the dreamer,
Ever present,
I capture the spirit,
enslave
the reluctant pen,
and become
the breath
on the writer's only road.
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A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.
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I'd kill to be a poet.
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The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.
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Poets sing our human music for us.
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I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.
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A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they've lived or barely lived through.
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At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless.
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The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he's awake.
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Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
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Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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You want to be a poet and not die.
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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.
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Give a poet a pen
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A ... poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.
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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
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I too am a poet who has found some favour with the Muse. I too have written songs. I too have heard the shepherds call me bard. But I take it from them with a grain of salt: I have the feeling that I cannot yet compare with Varius or Cinna, but cackle like a goose among melodious swans.
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Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.
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In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.
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The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
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A poet is a silent singer; he sings the deep songs of the soul silently.
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The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
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The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
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Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.
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I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.
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Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.
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I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
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SO MANY PEOPLE, SO FEW POETS
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We must listen to poets.
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I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.
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A poet's first contract is with truth.
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Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.
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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs.
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Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
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I was a piano player before I was a poet.
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Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.
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The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.
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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
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Poems arrive ready to begin.
Poets are only the transportation.
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Language is the machine of the poet.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.
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The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a poet is a mere heap of clay. If the purpose of poetry is the fashioning of men, poetry is likewise the heir of prophecy.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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The poet is a good citizen turned inside out.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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God is the perfect poet.
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The poet is a maker, not a retail trader.
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Nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.
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You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.
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Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.