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To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. Rita Dove

You Speak Poet Practice Young Symphony Scales Order Your Play

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. Robert Bringhurst

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Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. Robert E. Howard

Age Seen Poet Magazine Having Only Writer Never Had Ideas Editor Began Procedure Fifteen Working Less Profession Chosen Publisher

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time. Robert Graves

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms. Robert Green Ingersoll

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Robert Hass

Poet Laureate Poet Laureate Spokesman Literature Asked

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.' Robert Krulwich

You Eyes Poet Guess Something Write Napkin Close Listen Just Want Decide Rhyme Formula Length Your Radio

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think. Robert Pinsky

Good Trust Wonderful Entitled Poet Live Think Say Slogan Easy Poem Robert Wrote Always Verses Century

Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do. Robert Webb

People Word Poet Young Every Unpublished Student Comedian Himself Around His Ambiguity Role Expected Hanging Stadiums Arts Young People Really Full Professional Thinker Pull

Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music. Roberto Benigni

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet. Robin Coste Lewis

Thought Poet Could Write Writer Had Know Because Wanted Novels

As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style. Rodney Crowell

Natural Will Poet Style Had Rogers Just Conversational

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. Roger McGough

Alone You Together Worth Sometimes Made Poet Think Other Easier Though Worth It Carrying Scene Poets Writers Part Feel Is It Worth It Became Because Were Yes Very Different Even

I don't fit into the age, race, or class of a bestselling poet. Rupi Kaur

Class Age Poet Fit Race

Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase. Saint-John Perse

Man Science Will Poet Universe Back Moral Arc Chase Pushed Over Bewildered Hound Hear Been Expanding Expansion Infinite Frontiers As Far As Far Less Theory Extended

The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint. Saint-John Perse

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My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage. Salma Hayek

History Marriage People Care Poet Become Chemistry Medicine Babies Fearless Could Delivering Songwriter Taking Talented Also She Forced Arranged Mexico Anything Energetic Interested Grandmother Her

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. Salvatore Quasimodo

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. Salvatore Quasimodo

Poet Own Tradition His Internationalism

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. Salvatore Quasimodo

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