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"When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes."
"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead."
"God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations."
"I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me."
"Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions."
"I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly."
"We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets."
"He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse."
"As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words."
"This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator"
"Every man is a poet when he is in love."
"Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated."
"Scientist alone is true poet."
"Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly."
"Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places."
"All men are poets at heart."
"If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece."
"A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil."
"As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't."
"Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it."
