A Quotes
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“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”
“A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only a calm and detached mind can observe and absorb at the same time. If you participate, you may find the poetic output tilted towards your bias.”
“A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.”
Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets
“A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!”
“A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.”
“A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.”
“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
“A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.”
“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”
Source: Specimens of the table talk
“A poet over 30 is pathetic”
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
“A poet's duty is to pen down pure thoughts as written words.”
“A POET'S HOMAGE TO FLORENCE
What heart dares to look upon a city so golden and is not moved to write a single line?
Whose soul can bear such beauty
and not praise it with all its words?
May there be poets without a page left, artists with no colour to give a memory of you; and even lovers who refuse to burn?
My love, your likeness is like marble that makes the altar of paradise.”
“A poet's marriage to his time is a forced marriage.”
Source: Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry
“A poet's promise is kept by attention to detail. Every word is an opportunity to reveal the universal truth of God's love.”
“A poet's promise is to believe that each reader is a sacred soul that has the potential to rise above any circumstance.”
“A poet's promise is to recapture your soul when you thought it was lost.”
“A poet's work', he answers. 'To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.' And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his verses inflict, then they will nourish him.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.”
“A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.”
“A poet should be as sensitive as an aching tooth.”
“A poet should be mindful and write from a place of victory.”
“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
Source: Killosophy
“A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.”
“A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.”
Source: Autobiography of John Milton: Or, Milton's Life in His Own Words
“A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.”
Source: The voiced connections of James Dickey: interviews and conversations
“A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.”
“A poet warrior realizes both the brutality and the beauty in life, and apprehends that the suffering we tragically endure is partly what makes us human. What also makes us human is the ability to love, the ability to stand in nature’s presence, and to nurture this earthly paradise to tend to our family’s needs.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”
“A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.”
Source: Beyond All Pity
“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”
“A poet writing poetry, an artist creating calligraphy. An author scripting mastery with an encyclopedia intellect. From from a derelict's viewpoint, that can only be admired by reading the works. To understand the man, you must understand his work.”
Source: Thoughts during an Epiphany: The Complete Edition
“A Poet wrote this poem for me in 2017. Whenever I read this, I feel happy that I could touch someone deeply!
"It has not been long since he came to my life
He came like a soft wind
He made me feel like a king
He showed me who i am
He made me believe i can
No not just a simple man
A man who is so deep
Emotions feelings are in a heap
His mighty head high to keep
Though strong and hard
His heart is made of gold
Love kindness are decorated in folds
He holds the capacity of changing others
Making all the sisters and brothers
Feel that they are worthy
His words are so simple yet strong
Commanding yet soft
High pitched yet so serene
He smiles and makes the world smile
He feels the unfelt
He touches the untouched
He sees the unseen
He takes care of all without showing
He shows without pretending
His eyes sparkel with light
He is fearless no fright
He lightens up the room when he enters
And when he speaks is like a melodious symphony
That touch you deep down
He will inspire you
He will teach you
He will lend u a hand
And make u stand
He will be the eye for you to see
Thorough ur own heart
He never hopes bad for others
Neither does he bothers
About the negetivies
He is the positive man
The mighty happy soul
And if i talk about his soul
It the most beautiful soul
How can anyone feel so much?
And he has the capability of being himself
No matter what
He takes good care of others
And makes sure he is fit too
He wants smile in evryones faces
And he will make you smile
You meet him once
And here you go!
You have a changed life
Do you kno who the magic man is ?
He is the passionate writer”
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.”
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.”
“A poet's first contract is with truth.”
“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”
“A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.”
Source: A Poetry Handbook
“A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.”
“A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.”
“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”
Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)
“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
Source: The poetics
“A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.”
“A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.”
Source: Collected essays
“A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.”
“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”