For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.
Joseph Brodsky
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
James Broughton
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
Tina Brown
A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.
Luis Bunuel
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Horace
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
Yehudi Menuhin
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
Eugenio Montale
I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.
Steven Patrick Morrissey
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the... →
Albert Murray