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 often be the visual imagination, bringing before his eyes a succession of images which he never summoned, and of which some (it is only too likely) will be ugly or pitiful.

Mary Lascelles

Mots clés artist poet

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We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.

Dorianne Laux

Mots clés poetry writing poet writer

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Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Dorianne Laux

Mots clés poetry poet

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You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

Dorianne Laux

Mots clés poet writer

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You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Rick Riordan

Mots clés art poetry poem artist poet painting

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I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Ian Fleming

Mots clés words poet deeds

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A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.

Bob Dylan

Mots clés poet bob-dylan-quote

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You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Mots clés poet

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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Thomas Aquinas

Mots clés poetry philosophy wonder philosopher poet fables awe

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Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

William Shakespeare

Mots clés imagination words love reason poetry fantasy earth poet comprehension lover helen devils egypt lunatic madmen

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