He'd once heard a poet speak of this feeling as love.

It is as if the older poet were speaking for him and soothing him.

The poet speaks in the first person and is called Simichidas by his friends.

The poet spoke sadly, and his eyes were dim with tears.

"The poet was speaking not only about himself, but was warning all us small fry as well."

The poet was speaking to him, but his words failed to penetrate.

Each poet speaks to a different kind of child, or perhaps a child in a particular mood.

I thought that only poets, not lovers, could so speak.

The group has a rule: poets do not speak during criticism of their own works.

The American poet must speak truth to power and interpret suffering.