- Fated
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Poet Quotes
On concentrated language and simply enjoying existence.
One line draws a clean distinction: a philosopher sets out to prove that the philosopher exists, while a poet is content merely enjoying existence without needing proof. Another recalls being drawn to poetry in college for its concentrated, otherworldly language. Related reading continues on Expression quotes.
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- Mystery
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I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
- Remembered
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I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
- How
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
- Like
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A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.
- He
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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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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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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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- Nov 07, 2020
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