I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Poetry Quotes
Every true poet is inevitably a Columbus.
If it wasn’t for rap there would be no poetry in America. I think we went directly from Walt Whitman to Ice-T.
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
Poets are born, not made.
Poetry is for women, I suppose? she said. Created by men with women in mind. Like Crimplene.
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
Whatever my life has been it has been single in purpose, single in design and constantly directed to the one end of discovery, if possible, of some purpose in being alive… Poetry, an art, is what answer I have.
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
