Quotes by Poet We need help, the poet reckoned. Edward Dorn poet helping needs For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. Edward Dowden poet cynicism littles The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. Edward Dahlberg poet poetry earning There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. Edward Hirsch great-poet poet reader Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them. Edward Hirsch shelves poet trying The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can. Edward Hirsch involved poet way Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton truest immortality poet I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you. Edward Hirsch poet long thinking Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best. Edward Hirsch poet humans trying Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader. Edward Hirsch range negotiation poet There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this. Edward Hirsch poet students sometimes The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton mystery poet divine Don't poets know it Edwin Arnold poet mother knows The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. Edwin Percy Whipple eulogy married poet Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. Eileen Myles glamour poet long The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing. Eileen Myles fool poet wise I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous. Eileen Myles eras generations poet Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization. Elizabeth Janeway lumps poet civilization There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell. Elizabeth Barrett Browning bells poet voice I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. Ella Reeve Bloor nature-beauty poet thinking «56789101112131415»
