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The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversi... 
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversio... 
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves ... 
Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. 
You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it. 
Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p... 
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! 
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet ... 
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... 
A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical
impossibility. 
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. 
Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... 
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. 
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... 
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. 
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... 
Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. 
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. 
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or with... 
When we only talk about them without birthing them physically for people to see and experience, we l... 
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on ... 
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the sol... 
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dej... 
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a crit... 
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a crit... 
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty... 
Damn it, there is no world if there is not a human eye to see it, no world of any purpose or meaning... 
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he choos... 
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he cho... 
Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple. 
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it 
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every ... 
Most joyful let the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see. 
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon... 
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon... 
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without... 
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... 
until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone 
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... 
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. 
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ... 
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... 
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils an... 
In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life valu... 
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. 
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of y... 
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils ... 
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why o... 
Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without be... 
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet 
You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that. 
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. 
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. 
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted... 
And poets by their sufferings grow,--
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent... 
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. 
To fail to love is not to exist at all. 
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to. 
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. 
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. 
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught n... 
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ... 
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau... 
When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist... 
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur... 
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p... 
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. 
I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say. 
I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac... 
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rew... 
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authori... 
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... 
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad j... 
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. 
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.