True Poet Quotes

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.