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Poet Quotes by Robert Frost
- I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole…
- Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more…
- Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.
- 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,…
- Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
- To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
- A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
- Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
- Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
- When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they…
- Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way…
- Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found…
More Poet Quotes
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- 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