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There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.
James Fenton
You
Try
Poet
Practice
Must
Objection
Shall
Proposal
Write
Sonnet
Learn
Real
Order
Thing
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
James Fenton
Age
Poet
Knew
Nobody
Knows
Whether
Interested
Really
There is no doubt that Michael Symmons Roberts is a very good poet - you don't win a Whitbread award and get shortlisted for a TS Eliot prize for nothing. Few poets, though, have ever been good novelists, and vice-versa.
James Hawes
Good
You
Win
Poet
Few
Nothing
Doubt
Though
No Doubt
Poets
Roberts
Been
Very
Michael
Prize
Get
Novelists
Award
Ever
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.
James Laughlin
Good
Great
You
Personality
Poet
Reading
Think
He
Puts
Reader
Person
Get
Sitting
Gets
Just
Difference
Whereas
Whole
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.
James Laughlin
Good
Mind
Will
Poet
Important
Own
Think
Two-Way
Two-Way Street
Add
Recollection
Poem
Poetry
He
Read
Reader
Course
Readings
His
Very
Any
Street
Things
Suggest
Suggested
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.
James Laughlin
Sad
Relationship
Poet
Those
Writer
Clear
Headway
Occasions
Course
Because
Making
Go
Very
Personal
Authors
Just
Personal Relationship
Them
Then
Grown
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.
James Payn
Me
Poet
Important
Relation
Philosopher
Considered
Members
Struck
Never
Know
Another
Been
Often
Either
Social
Far
Body
Sufficiently
Treated
Two
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
James Schuyler
Words
Communicate
Impossible
Poet
First
Other
Aim
Out
Something
Make
Artist
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James Thurber
Long
Poet
Before
Believe
Birth
About
Cases
Something
He
Leads
His
Years
Died
Which
Us
Many
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.
Jamila Woods
Me
People
Poet
Other
Gave
Approach
Lyrics
Than
Being
Different
Different Approach
It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.
Jamila Woods
Time
Myself
Song
Will
Poet
Important
Bending
Considered
Immerse
One Thing
Poem
Only
Could
Never
Pushing
Boundaries
Singer
Well
Genres
Because
Always
Interested
Thing
I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.
Jamila Woods
Poet
Lyrics
Write
Like
Brain
Sensibility
Bringing
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
Jane Austen
Good
Business
People
Poet
Profit
Other
Enough
Out
No Business
Good Ones
Write
He
Taking
Fair
Fame
Scott
Mouths
Bread
Not Fair
Should
Novels
I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.
Jane Yolen
Soul
Poet
Journalist
Pocketbook
My Soul
Began
A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.
Janet Fitch
Words
Poet
Nothing
Get
Story
Novelist
I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah's 'Black Reign' is the album that stands out the most.
Jason Reynolds
Love
Queen
Old
Black
Poet
Reading
Lyrics
Out
Poetry
Through
Instead
Obsession
Most
Fell
Around
Hip-Hop
Came
Years
Eight
Wanted
Literature
Notes
Stands
Reign
Album
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Jean Cocteau
You
Youth
Light
Job
Rest
Poet
Clean
Take
Spontaneity
Polish
Freshness
Effect
Did
Same
Done
Literature
Commonplace
Produces
Originality
Originally
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau
Poet
Admiration
Never
He
Wants
Ask
Believed
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau
Invent
Poet
Poetry
He
Listens
'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.
Jenny Zhang
Poet
Late
Danish
Poem
Alphabet
Also
Text
Wonder
Activist
'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the 'black energy' of Gore Vidal's relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal's angelic and demonic sides, yet there's very little of the angel in Vidal.
Jerome Charyn
Man
Battle
Black
Angel
Poet
Narcissism
Energy
Gone
Difficult
Sides
Relentless
Gifted
Angelic
Self
Between
Empire
Gore
Himself
Demonic
Very
Loving
Little
Epic
Jay
Deep
Novelist
Portrait
I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.
Jessica White
Poet
First
Before
Foremost
Modelling
I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap into the emotions of an audience simply by the cross of a certain phrase, even a single word, against a certain chord.
Jim Carroll
Song
Emotions
Word
Stronger
Poet
Single
Sense
Believe
Way
Possess
Would
Phrase
Intuitive
Cross
Simply
Audience
Rock
Single Word
Tap
Against
Certain
Chord
Even
I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.
Jim Carroll
Face
Poet
Once
One-Night
Poets
He
Most
Sing
Audience
Rock
Said
Rock-N-Roll
Loudly
Roll
Wants
Them
Should
Keep
Right
Night
Honest
Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.
Jim Carroll
Myself
Me
Poet
Everybody
Kind
Poems
Having
Voice
Prophecy
Beat
Like
Calling
Because
Rock
Rock And Roll
Up
Roll
Screwed
Screwed-Up
Found
I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.
Jim Harrison
You
Language
Poet
Preaching
Way
Obsessed
Calling
Became
Gospel
Aesthetically
Preachers
Artist
Literary
Novelist
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