Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others..
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy..
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet..
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?.
The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own..
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic..
I knew that poets seemed to be miserable..
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musici….
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage..
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is ….
…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world..
All men are poets at heart..
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it..
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts..
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them..
I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous..
A small poet repeats himself like a clock..
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists..
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, th….
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating..