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Poet Quotes (page 36)

Sylvia Plath quote: "Oh what a poet I will flay myself into."
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into. Sylvia Plath
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons..."
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. Jorge Luis Borges
Ernest Hemingway quote: "For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle. Ernest Hemingway
Ralph Ellison quote: "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops..."
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. Ralph Ellison
Johnson, who defines poetry as 'metrical composition', defines poet as 'An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure'. We can gauge how far we have traveled by comparing this with the Shorter Oxford Dictionary which, after a definition very like Johnson's, feels obligated to add 'A writer in verse (or sometimes in elevated prose) distinguished by imaginative power, insight, sensibility, and faculty of expression'. C. S. Lewis
If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not. You have to write when you’re not inspired. And you have to write the scenes that don’t inspire you. And the weird thing is that six months later, a year later, you’ll look back at them and you can’t remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired... Neil Gaiman
Aleister Crowley quote: "I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make..."
I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them. Aleister Crowley
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one. Nora Roberts
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own. Haniel Long
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize. C. S. Lewis
But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had no inkling of their crushing defeat. Stanislaw Lem
Tom Stoppard quote: "He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with..."
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps. Tom Stoppard
That is what all the poets do: they talk to themselves outloud and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes. George Bernard Shaw
Joseph Campbell quote: "For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man,..."
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. Joseph Campbell
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct. Robert Frost

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