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“A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.”

Love Is Sea Figures Poet Lays

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.”

Persons Figures Poet Musician Painter Landscape Sunset Music Love Love Poetry Nightingales Musician Love Love Picture

Author:Andre Malraux

“From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.”

Knows Reading Literature Answers Figures Poet Aspect Myth American Poetry

Author:Diane Wakoski

“Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.”

Ifs House Language Figures Poet Speech Ordinary Prison Distinction Rejects Strict Usage Figures Of Speech

Author:Arthur Quinn

“A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.”

Should Figures Poet Public Figures

Author:Cecil Day-Lewis

“Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.”

Giving Art Order Figures Poet Perspective Painter Proportion Obliged

Book:The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates Between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941

Source: The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates Between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941

“I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.”

People Way Figures Poet Musical Statements Chests

Author:Mike Patton

“He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.”

Guy Figures New York Poet Musician Buddhist Establishment Testament Old Testament

Author:Tom Hayden

“A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the words or make certain sounds rhyme or just imitate the other poets they've read. But this boy, he's the real poet, because when he tries to put on paper what he's seen with his heart, he will believe deep down that there are no good words for it, no words can do it, and at that moment he will have begun to write poetry.”

People Thinking Writing Trying Believe Heart Real Moments Certain Sound Can Do Lines Boys Figures Poet Paper That Moment Rhyme Deep Down Good Words

Author:Cynthia Rylant

“Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.”

People Want Firsts States Figures Students Poet Praise Shock Graduates Public Figures Graduate Students

Author:Erica Jong