Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby
You don`t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they`re poets. I don`t call myself a poet because I don`t like the word. I`m a trapeze artist.
Bob Dylan
I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don`t wait for a job. I just go on to my own work. Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I`ve had poets tell me to my face that an actress can`t be a poet.
Grace Zabriskie
(On Dead Poets Society (1989)) The experience on that movie was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I`ve never been terribly successful at doing that.
Ethan Hawke
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were toget...
Roger McGough
While I don`t satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I`m terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that`s true about many of us.
Thom Gunn
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
Aleksander Suglobov
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
Aleksander Suglobov
There are some poets, and some of the good ones, who really act as careerists and go out and make a career, make sure they`re well regarded.
Peter Davison
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don`t seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
Peter Davison
The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
Allie Zazzali
The poet`s other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
Andrea Cerutti
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
Robert Morgan
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
Robert Morgan
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the `genius` of the personage, the greater the profit.
Alex Lopez Negrete
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
Alicia Dlugosh
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
