A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.
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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.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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Tasso is their glory and their shame. Hark to his strain! And then survey his cell! And see how dearly earn'd Torquato's fame, And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell.
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God is the PERFECT POET, Who in creation acts his own conceptions.
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Mayakovsky has an essay called How to Write Poems where he says that a poet must spend time and effort choosing the uniquely appropriate words, force them into the rhythm of the poem and then test it out loud ten times or more. Vertov did something ve
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
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The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their fieldwork among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
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Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
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Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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