112 quotes found
“Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.”
“Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to ...”
“They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.”
“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 d...”
“It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.”
“He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.”
“There is no moral to my song,I praise no right, I blame no wrong;I tell of things that I have seen,I show the man that I have beenAs simply as a poet canWho knows himself poet and man.”
“Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most ...”
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock aroun...”
“On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree”
“Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.”
“I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.”
“He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.”
“Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.”
“An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.”
“A change of style is a change of meaning.”
“I had no more alphabetthan the journeying of the swallows,the pure and tiny waterof the small, fiery birdthat dances rising from the pollen.”
“Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.”
“A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.”
“Between roars the lion purrs.”
