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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language. Octavio Paz

Great Language Poet Someone Limits His Transcends Means Who Painter

As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other. Omari Hardwick

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist. Omari Hardwick

I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well. Omari Hardwick

You Smart Father Poet Lawyer Trial Say Trial Lawyer Bent Definitely He Know Well Came Artistic Different Who Actor

I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet. Omari Hardwick

Me Poet Backpack Reminds Always Being

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius. Orson F. Whitney

Genius Poet Prophet Than Less Nazareth Jesus

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong. Patrick Kavanagh

Life People Poet Dances Detached Would About Could Take Never Football He Part Remote Talk Him Might Belong

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art. Patti Smith

Art Me People Made Poet First Exactly Know Rock Always Am Person Want Then Who Wary Why

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them. Paul Auster

Life Myself Writing Poet Reading Out Would Detective About Poems Only Divert Poetry Through Prose Liked Until Got Often While Them Serious Novels Started

The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world. Paul Muldoon

Best World Poet Back Poems Through Come Go

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet. Pearl Cleage

Poet Playwright Secretary Press Press Secretary Dream Had Being Novelist

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work. Philip Levine

Work Me Poet Sense Fact Detroit Crummy Doing Left Ironic Going Six Stop Being Which While Worker Twenty Thing

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. Philip Levine

Myself Thought Poet Once Would Oblivion Sure Ordinary Who Save

The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth. Philip Sidney

Poet Nothing Never Therefore

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. Philippe Petit

Poet High High Wire Wire Never Performance Stunts Am Theatrical

I'm a poet. Rajon Rondo

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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing. Raymond Queneau

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. Rene Char

Poet Must Proof Traces Passage Leave His

Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius. Richard Flanagan

Genius Poet Respects Out Admittedly Masquerading Sort Equivalent German Turned Who European Many Many Respects Maria

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self. Richard Wilbur

Great Better Mind Poet Congress Back Address Those Neighbors Admired Constitute Directly Self He True Ideal Him Audience Does His Taught Dwell Persons Who Whom

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