Poet Wants Quotes
- When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses… — Raymond Queneau
- The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his… — Cleanth Brooks
- It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-observant",… — Gaston Bachelard
- A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life. — Joan Walsh Anglund
- I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. — Howard Nemerov