“Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated
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Source: Little Stories
Source: Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
“I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.”
“Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.”
Source: Following the Equator:
“I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.”
“Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.”
“At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.”
Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays
Source: Venus in Arms
“I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.”
“When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
“I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.”
“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
Source: Killosophy
“Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.”
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
Source: We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor
“It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.”