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Poet Quotes (page 29)

Charles Bukowski quote: "but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made..."
but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. Charles Bukowski
John Berryman quote: "Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am..."
Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . . John Berryman
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise? Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car? And driven the Hamadryad from the wood To seek a shelter in some happier star? Hast thou not torn the... Edgar Allan Poe
Wallace Stevens quote: "People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they..."
People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. Wallace Stevens
The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the poets at the bus stop.) Martin Amis
He always wrote on the flyleaf of each new book the date and where he was, so I can follow him: reading Chesterton just after they were married in November 1929, Scottish poets the following spring. Robert MacNeil
Bruce Springsteen quote: "the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just..."
the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... Bruce Springsteen
Stephen King quote: "She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and..."
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. Stephen King
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman. Socrates
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer. Gaston Bachelard
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting. Robert Penn Warren
It takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most loving and well-assorted. A happy wedlock is a long falling in love. Men and women marry fractionally, now a small and then a larger fraction... Such a long and sweet fruit needs a long summer to ripen in and a long winter to season in. But real and happy marriage is one of those things so handsome that if the sun were, as the Greek poets fabled it, a god, he might stop the world and hold it still now and then to feast his... Theodore Parker
Arthur Rimbaud quote: "The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and..."
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses Arthur Rimbaud
Vita Sackville-West quote: "I cannot love your weeping poets..."
I cannot love your weeping poets... Vita Sackville-West
Do you think it's ready?" I [Silenus, The Poet] asked. "It's perfect... a masterpiece."Do you think it'll sell?" I asked. "No fucking way. Dan Simmons

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