A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
I was a piano player before I was a poet.
