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“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.”
“The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.”
“The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.”
“The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.”
“The Poet reveals what is hidden, and what is often hidden is himself”
“The poet Rumi writes, 'Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at the empty heart of paradox. I’ll dance there with you—cheek to cheek.”
Source: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
“The poet 's duty is to write.
The professor's duty is lecture.
The prophet's duty is to proclaim the words of God.
The priest's duty is to teach the truth of God.
The preacher's duty is to preach the gospel of God.”
“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a poet is a mere heap of clay. If the purpose of poetry is the fashioning of men, poetry is likewise the heir of prophecy.”
“The Poet's Outfit"
You saw a broken heart
And salvaged its hollow chambers
With the quintessence of
Vibrancy
Desire
Prophecy
Madness
Soul
Sin
& the wisdom of the over self.”
“The poet’s task is this, my friend, to read his dreams and comprehend. The truest human fancy seems to be revealed to us in dreams: all poems and versification are but true dreams’ interpretation.”
“The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann
“The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series
“The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“The poet should touch our heart by showing his own”
Source: Hours in a Library: Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley. Gray and his school. Sterne. Country books. George Eliot. Autobiography. Carlyle's ethics. The State trials. Coleridge
“The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.”
“The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.”
“The poet walks the earth in relative obscurity. You might see him surface briefly at an open microphone event or at a workshop, but for the most part he stays in his burrow.
His bosses love him. He writes elegant copy and sticks to his knitting. You hardly know he’s there in his cubicle.”
“The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.”
“The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his metaphors? Through his metaphors, he risks saying it partially and obscurely, and risks saying nothing at all. But the risk must be taken, for direct statement leads to abstraction and threatens to take us out of poetry altogether.”
“The poet was, of course, always present to assist the debater. Though the logic of Lewis's Christian apologetics may be fallible, the imagination of the writing with its brilliantly-conceived analogies is itself enough to win a reader to his side. As Austin Farrer expressed it, "We think we are listening to an argument; in fact we are presented with a vision; and it is the vision that carries conviction.”
Source: The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
“The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much. He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.”
Source: Poets of America
“The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.”
“The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.”
“The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.”
“The Poet With His Face In His Hands
You want to cry aloud for your
mistakes. But to tell the truth the world
doesn’t need anymore of that sound.
So if you’re going to do it and can’t
stop yourself, if your pretty mouth can’t
hold it in, at least go by yourself across
the forty fields and the forty dark inclines
of rocks and water to the place where
the falls are flinging out their white sheets
like crazy, and there is a cave behind all that
jubilation and water fun and you can
stand there, under it, and roar all you
want and nothing will be disturbed; you can
drip with despair all afternoon and still,
on a green branch, its wings just lightly touched
by the passing foil of the water, the thrush,
puffing out its spotted breast, will sing
of the perfect, stone-hard beauty of everything.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
“The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.”
“The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry.”
“The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.”
“The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth,
From earth to heaven.”
“The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.”
“The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.”
“The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.”
Source: Collected writings on poetry
“The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.”
“The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.”
“The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one,
In the slow process of the doubtful years.”
Source: The Poet's Journal
“The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.”
Source: The Masquerade: And Other Poems
“The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.”
Source: Selected essays
“The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.”
“The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.”
Source: The Lyric: An Essay
“The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared by healers, especially the herbal healer who works with plants, which are the pure creative expression of nature and the healing process.”
“The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929
“The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.”
“The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”
“The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”
“The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”
“The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.”
“The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.”
Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost