112 quotes found
“Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their...”
“. . . a racer snake / slicking off / like a signature into the weeds.”
“From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then,Oriole, also, may be realist.”
“One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.”
“Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the jobbecause all that one does in America is considered a "job"with no clear se...”
“Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.”
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on the top of St Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a...”
“Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”
“It might seem like the easier way to get rid of a poet would be just to take him out to the backyard, have him kneel between the cans with tomato plants in them and put a bullet in his brain. But t...”
“A poet's fantasy: Hiring a rapper to rap his rhymes.”
“The eclipses ofpoets are not foretold in the calender.”
“Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.”
“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and...”
“The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become." Later, on his last disk to his lover the...”
“For the way of the comets is the poet's way.”
“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed...”
“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.”
“Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.”
“You don't sound like a scientist; you sound like a poet." Rey smiled. "Can I be both?" "But you'd rather be a poet.""Who wouldn't?" he said.”
“A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.”
