The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet’s path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I’d choose to be...

…I guess you’re right – I am a priest – I offer sacrifices – so take this line, I want you to have something of mine…

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

The ancients wrote down the first scripture of choreography by observing in the night sky movements of the dancing stars.

[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality.(cristaux deposes apres l’effervescent contact de l’esprit avec la realite)

Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always...

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Every time a poet is about to write, every time the open their mouth to say something, they express their inner world and tell of their own feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and opinions, unless they are...

Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful

Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.

A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and...

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Give the mind rest, do not stress too much on thoughts, close your eyes and let your spirit dance.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

People can’t see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

Growing up, I’d already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I’d dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I’d listen to cool jazz...

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

Don’t ask me any questions. I’ve seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid.

Just take my hand, lead, dance with me…and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free…where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again…in long...

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.

Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.

Dance is the divine art that empowers a lady to express her most sacred emotions through the majesty of movements.

If you can’t tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I’m saying “hoe” or “bitch” I am actually referring to men. …That sounded bad, in someway. But at the...

Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther...

Johnson, who defines poetry as ‘metrical composition’, defines poet as ‘An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure’. We can gauge how far we have traveled by comparing...

Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.

He was a poet -oh all men are when they’re in love.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

writing home”here in the wilderness of australiawriting home becomes easyin spite of the spreading wild firesthere is less heat, more certainty.writing home, writing thisi think of those without real homes–our city, people say, provides houseswhich...

I walk with a dual longing for life and for death.

The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not be controlled nor put to sleep. In a poet this must...

Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies

Amy King is a true bard.

The world holds two classes of men–intelligent men without religion, and religious men withoutintelligence.poet

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Loveis not leaning on each other, adjusting to fit a different size.Loveis simply two hands reached out in the darkness,saying; I’ll be your light, if you’ll be mine.

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I’m too busy dancing with...

One has to commit a painting,’ said Degas,’the way one commits a crime.

You cannot deny the struggle; the struggle denies you.

If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.