#poet

The poet is a madman lost in adventure. ↗

— Paul Verlaine

#lost #madman #poet

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#awhile #humming #keats #only #other

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not? ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#feel #go #him #how #looking

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#everything #geometry #invents #may #perfectly

Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her. ↗

— J. Ruth Gendler

#poetic #qualities #ruth-gendler #beauty

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight. ↗

— Shane Koyczan

#poetry #stop-signs #beauty

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. ↗

— Janine Turner

#applied #i #never #poetry #songwriting

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#british #definitely #distinguish #english #english language

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#come #common #common thing #does #i

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#american #emphasis #individuality #like #painting