Consciousness Quote by Diane di Prima

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways…

— Eavan Boland

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is…

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

— William Wordsworth

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to…

— Jane Kenyon

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

— Stanley Kunitz

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

— Nikki Giovanni

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are…

— Jean Cocteau

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka

“a poet is after all, to see”

— Ann Wood

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith