Quotes About Expression

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.