The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.
As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
