A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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