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Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others. Amity Gaige
Poet Others Has-Been Bad Pretty Been Oh
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. Andrew Motion
Poet Others Admire Above Wordsworth
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. Andrew Motion
Me People Poet Others Admire Above General Most Romantics Wordsworth Connect Keats
I live in New York City, and one day many years ago I was with a poet, Gregory Corso, walking through Greenwich Village. He pointed to a doorway in an alley that he said led to a tunnel under Manhattan, a tunnel he'd use to run from the cops. I started learning about old Prohibition-era speakeasy tunnels under the city, for running whiskey. Ann Nocenti
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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. Anne Stevenson
Poet Think Like Should Painter
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet. Anne Stevenson
Time Great Poet Sister Mountains Live Spend Married Cottage Writer Vermont Wales North Where Children USA Lucas Who Peter
Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms. Anne Stevenson
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I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet. Anne Waldman
Myself Sometimes Word Poet Structures Never Songs Spoken Spoken Word Longer Call Mantra
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. Anthony Hecht
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Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things. Anthony Zerbe
Work Poet Playwright Everybody Our Minds About Something Put Like Terms Identify Because Understand How Understood Want Wants Things
I'm very fortunate in that my parents are artists. My mom is a brilliant poet... She still is a great visual artist. My dad is a jazz drummer... I've been very fortunate in that I've had parents who supported and encouraged me and haven't really questioned what I'm doing or asked me to question it. Ari Aster
Mom Great Me Brilliant Parents Poet Jazz Visual Had Supported Drummer She Still Doing Been Encouraged Question Questioned Very Artist Artists Asked Really Fortunate Who Dad
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies. Aristotle
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Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title. Austin Clarke
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People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler. Bayard Taylor
Success People Poet See Could Never Had Been Traveler
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. Beatrice Wood
Mind Poet Sense Rich Harvard Except No Sense Aesthetic His
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there. Ben Okri
Life Writing Poet Evolved Poetry Journalism Always Been Began Stories Novels Fundamental
Jose Marti, known as 'the Apostle of Cuban Independence,' was an influential poet, journalist, and political theorist who became a symbol for the Cuban people's bid for independence. The concepts of freedom, liberty, and self-determination feature prominently in his work. Ben Rhodes
Work Freedom People Liberty Political Independence Poet Journalist Feature Self-Determination Concepts Bid Known Became Cuban His Influential Apostle Theorist Who Symbol
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age. Benazir Bhutto
Future Faith Age Poet Philosopher Saw Synthesis Adherence Adjustment He Between Course Islamic Tradition Intellectual Modern Modern Age Which Heir Pakistan Illustrious Societies
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father. Bernardo Bertolucci
You Writing Father Poet Young Follow Poems Absolutely Know Because Normal
When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery. Billy Collins
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Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness. Billy Collins
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My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. Bob Balaban
Business Creative School Poet Baby Would Born Something Writer He Him Were Been Very Loved Sent Successful Business School Dad
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Bob Dylan
Poet Think Call Himself Anybody Who
When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti. Brin-Jonathan Butler
Government Poet First Trial Responsible Castro Attempt He Put Dropped Name Insurrection His Intellectually Asked Who
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one. Cameron Russell
You Surgeon Internet Poet First Awesome President States Ninja Would Would-Be Be The First Inventor Could First One Because Anything Which Next United United States
Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Poet Poetry Necessary
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