89 quotes found
“Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.”
“That's a poet.''I thought you said it was a bo-at.''Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?''Why, a thing to sail on the water in.''Well, perhaps you're not so far wrong. Some poets do carry peo...”
“...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine...”
“I have wished you something None of the others would....”
“The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses”
“For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the ...”
“A poetess is a collection of unfinished thoughts. She is a tormented phantom, a harbinger of life and death. Those who peer deep inside her catacombs will learn that even madness is a virtue.”
“Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no sto...”
“Despair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness.”
“Sometimes it is good to breach the rulesso as to achieve an end,Yet keep an edge and not break or bend.”
“Standing is symbolic of life itself,Open space is just a distance between you and someone else”
“Every poet every storyteller requires motivation.”
“Only when you see the flower for what it is, you can see it's true beauty”
“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the o...”
“Writing is also an art.”
“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.”
“I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse.”
“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.”
“Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint.”
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirt...”
