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" Quotes and Sayings About a poet

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

Poetess Died Young Cancer
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Poet First Consider Myself
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A poem is a naked person, some people say I am a poet.

Poet Person Say Some
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Heart Sing Song Poet
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I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Believe Art Full Life
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.

Universe Create Artist Poet
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Absorb Country He Him
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Film Never Good Really
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Looks Man Poet Way
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Anguish Beautiful Beautiful Music Cries
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Been Before Everywhere Find
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Affair Love Love Affair Never
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Anybody He Little Made
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Fact Writing Culture Art
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poet Love Person Before
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Verbal Maker Objects Poet
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Among Death His Honor
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Breathing Involuntary Mortals Natural
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Even More MoreAndMore Poetry
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Poet Precision Scientist Writer
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

Aware Deep Effect Even
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

What A Writer Do
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Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always Even Poet Prose
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To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Opinion Sell Yourself Exist
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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

One-day Poet Depend Water
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A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.
Poet Need Trouble Leis
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Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

Poet Unhealthier Regular Temptations
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Mathematician Painter Poet Permanent
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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

A poet Alchemist Transmutes Regarding human
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Advise Congress Distinct Duties
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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Being Capable Larger Laureate
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'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet - there's also a beautiful side to 'Rather You Than Me.'

Also Beautiful Being Instinct
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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

Back Cannot Critic Cruel
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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Alive Am Anything Country
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Always Call Certain Dangerous
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Applied Back Body End
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Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Carries Discourse Even Every
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A poet must learn to wage war.

Poet Learn Wage war
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Poet Believe Leads Died
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I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

A poet My lies The way My mother
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A poem is more important than a poet.

A poem More important A poet
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world

Heart Always breaking Through Broken window
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

A tramp Gentleman Poet A dreamer
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Poet Silence Response Flattering one
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Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Not everyone Who drinks A poet
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All a poet can do today is warn.

All.Poet Today Warn
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