Quotes having the keyword Poet
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
by Diane Wakoski (Poet, American , born in 1937) keywords: american, answer, aspects, aware, consider, cultural, doing, figure, good, into, know, myth, part, poet, poetry, previous, reading, those, thus , whether I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.
by Diane Wakoski (Poet, American , born in 1937) keywords: almost, complex, even, exciting, great, history, interesting, language, more, most, now, old, perhaps, poet, poetry, point, read, really, think, top, use, years , yeats So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.
by Diane Wakoski (Poet, American , born in 1937) keywords: available, been, before, black, cause, correct, even, identified, just, never, other, poet, politically, read, really, represents, someone, term, us, want, war , woman A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
by Orson Welles (Actor, American , born in 1915) topics: Movies keywords: camera, eye, film, good, head, never, poet, really , unless It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
by Richard Wilbur (Poet, American , born in 1921) keywords: address, admired, audience, back, better, congress, constitute, directly, does, dwell, great, him, his, ideal, mind, neighbors, persons, poet, self, taught, those, true , whom To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
by Richard Wilbur (Poet, American , born in 1921) keywords: anonymous, common, congress, fundamental, himself, men, most, peculiar, personal, poet, speaks, things , true There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: been, changed, child, dead, destiny, earth, famous, genius, gone, grandeur, had, man, men, now, poet, poets, time, tragic, were, woman , young The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: body, essence, gives, his, mind, mold, poet, prose, takes , us Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: body, caught, hat, heart, measure, poet, shall, tangled, violence , woman Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
by Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect, American , born in 1970) keywords: age, architect, day, every, great, his, interpreter, must, necessarily, original, poet , time I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
by William Butler Yeats (Poet, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: better, gift, mouth, poet, right, set, silent, statesman, these, think, times , truth
