Poet Quotes - Page 26

• Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Vision, Dominion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.337, Routledge

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• How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Writing, Soul

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• I never have restricted myself into a frame of a particular technique. My techniques are determined simultaneously along with the subjects of my works. It is similar to the works of a poet, the form of a poem is determined at the same time as its content.

  Guity Novin

  Technique, Determined, Form

  Etelaat newspaper, Iran, June 07, 1973.

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• Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

  Babette Deutsch

  Poetry

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• other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Memories, Fall, Artist

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• It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  God, Spiritual, Order

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• The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

  Harriet Monroe

  People, Hearing, Grants

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• a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  People, Faces, Oppressed

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.

  Anne Ellis

  Jobs, Mistake, Eye

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• Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.

  Nicole Brossard

  Humanity, Sexuality

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.

  Matthea Harvey

  Rain, Eye, Simple

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• I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
  I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
  Each time I find myself flat on my face
  I pick myself up and get back in the race

  Frank Sinatra

  Kings, Race, Pirate

  Song: That's Life, Album: That's Life

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• Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Novelists, Lines

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

  Dorianne Laux

  Thinking, Trying, Calling

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

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• The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Being Yourself, Advice, Want

  "Nikki Giovanni - Celebrity Guest Author Interview". Interview with Cheryl Holloway, www.cherylholloway.net. February 14, 2014.

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• A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

  Sherman Alexie

  Use, Comedy, Language

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, www.english.illinois.edu. 2000.

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• I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

  Philippe Petit

  Wire, Stuntman, Theatrical

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• For a poet, style is the only morality.

  Jennifer Stone

  Poetry, Style, Morality

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• Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.

  Toshiko Takaezu

  Artist, Quality, Pieces

  Toshiko Takaezu, Felice Fischer, Darrel Sewell (2004). “The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu”, ACC Distribution

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• The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

  Horace

  Madmen, Fellows

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• In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Attitude, Drama

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.24, Editora Dracaena

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• There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.205, Harvard University Press

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• The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Keys, Delight, Common

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.215, Harvard University Press

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