Poet Quotes (page 21)

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• spring
• soul
• drinking

The poet is a pure spring from which all thirsty souls may drink. Khalil Gibran

• thoughts
• gold
• thoughtfully

the hillslike poets put onpurple thought againstthemagnificent clamor ofdaytorturedin gold E. E. Cummings

• thoughts
• future
• past

We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing us, not the future. The future always has and always will belong to—the poet. Henry Miller

• baby
• wishes
• may

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby. Julian Barnes

• writing
• madly
• mad

And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write. Aldous Huxley

• poets
• being
• beings

If you can't be a poet, be the poem David Carradine

• drunk
• doubt
• society

How, in so short a time, she had passed from intoxication to disgust we will only seek to explain by supposing that this mysterious composition which we call society, is nothing absolutely good or bad in itself, but has a spirit in it, volatile but potent, which either makes you drunk when you think it, as Orlando thought it, delightful, or gives you a headache when you think it, as Orlando thought it, repulsive. That the faculty of speech has much to do with it either way, we take leave to... Virginia Woolf

• remembrance
• sad
• writing

Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit. Upton Sinclair

• passion
• measures
• measurement

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. William James

• time
• commitment
• doubt

When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," / They make you dread that they 'II recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; / At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, / But then, no doubt, it equally as true is, / A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis. George Byron

• old
• old year
• year

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. H. L. Mencken

• sunset
• home
• fear

The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed to be entirely peopled by blocked dramatists, likeably shambling poets, and one-off novelists. The whole place felt like a clubworld sunset home for literary talent. Martin Amis

• evening
• giving
• thoughts

The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought Arthur Rimbaud

• color
• intuition
• colorful

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition. Thomas Hardy

• suffers
• poets
• suffer

You don't have to suffer to be a poet John Ciardi