A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentiona