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Poet Quotes by Jean-Paul Malfatti
- A gay poet is just one of the very many poet gays of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
- I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the soul and the…
- I was born not to be a poet myself, but to be the instrument of the very poet that has always been inside me.
- If I were a poet, I would write you a love poem a day. If I were a singer, I would sing you love songs…
- Being (or feeling as) a poet is also to weep sorrows behind the smile of a pen.
- The deep-feeling poet is he who, while doing his works, abandons the body, gets inspired by the words of the heart and writes them with…
- A versifier with neither heart nor soul is, rather than a poet, a dull and lifeless thinking pen or keyboard.
More Poet Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden