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The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.
I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.
You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.
Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.
To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.
Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.
Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.
Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.