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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
All a poet can do today is warn.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.
- College
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
- He
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
- Exists
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
- Precision
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
- Hate
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I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
- Courage
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The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
- Muse
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And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
- Made
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The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
- Between
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- Nov 07, 2020
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is the perfect poet.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.
- Lost
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The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
- Enough
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Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
- Fated
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
- Remembered
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
- Invisible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Carry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
- Exactly The Same
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd kill to be a poet.
- Girlfriend
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky's girlfriend.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
- Critic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Listens
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
- Grudge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
- Joyce
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- Nov 07, 2020