Poet Quotes

The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

There’s this kind of freedom in saying what I think I could lay to rest eternally in ink.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!

It wasn’t until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.

A broken heart will make a poet out of you.

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.