As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.
Gary Snydereverybody loves a poet
a poet loves everybody
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Helen HayesI think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
Philip LarkinTags: poetry novels quote poet writer novelist philip-larkin
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n,
and strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light
Tags: poetry sun heaven stars poet dawn new-day sunrise persian end-of-night
That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.
Gayle FormanTags: men women relationships rules poet directions shakespeare-in-love
I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.
Alysia HarrisTags: poetry religion poem sin christian poet dress sinner tonight
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.
Criss JamiTags: life art passion poetry writing food accomplishment necessity lyrics survival artist poet lifestyle puzzle rhyming
In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium.
Kevin Crossley-HollandTags: poetry history language word poet spoken
In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.
Joseph CampbellTags: society poet everyday eternal
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