It is as if poets are ashamed of their art's linguistic nature and are always wishing it could arrive at a nonverbal state.

The poet wishes to see you.

What poems like "The Writer" stress, finally, is how tentative any poetic position must be if the poet wishes to remain truly open to the mystery and wonders of life.

The poet wishes to be with the three figures, but he is unable to join them.

Fogbow Bridge: Selected Poems, 1972-1999 (2000) makes available all the material that the poet, at 50, wished to claim.

The poet Maya Angelou sent a statement saying she wished she could have attended.

The poet does not wish to save him, for his instinct is to develop a catastrophe as none has been developed before or since.

While the poet may wish for another expression, the cliche was excusable in this case because the Liberty responded just as she predicted.

Air was dry and cool, sky as blue and deep as a poet could wish.

It is the state that the poets wish to achieve, when all the manifestations of the world become "blossoms upon one tree."