Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame.

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

When poets — write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.

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

The poet is a particular kind of expert.

Le poete est un animal marin qui vit sur terre et qui voudrait voler.

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

To be a poet is to be taller, to be bigger
Than men! It is to bite as if you’re kissing!
It is to give alms, although you are a beggar like
King of the Realm where only pain is missing!</p>It is to have a thousand desires for splendor
And do not even know what we want!
It is to have inside yourself a flaming star,
It is to have the condor’s mighty claw and wing! It is to be hungry, to be thirsty of Infinity!
By helmet, golden and satin mornings...
It is to condense the world into one lonely cry! And it is loving you, thus, hopelessly...
And it is you being soul, and blood, and life in me
And tell it singing to everyone!

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

...of poetry as daily fare-of poetry as being as much the daily bread as the white hyacinths of life.