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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words. Teju Cole

Writing Words Else Marketing Apt Marry About Something Something Else Poets Purposes Writers Attempt Sensations Novelists

Pittsburgh was the first chance to be in a classroom with other writers, to have conversations with other writers. In fact, after graduate school, I lived in Japan, Ohio and New Orleans, and only upon leaving Pittsburgh did I see what a special community it was for poets, so I was eager to come back. It's a strong arts community across the board. Terrance Hayes

Strong School First Community Other Back See Classroom Only Poets Fact Writers New Come Leaving New Orleans Did Graduate Graduate School Arts Ohio In Fact Pittsburgh After Conversations Board Japan Across Special Lived Eager Orleans Chance

Poets are like the decathletes of literature. Terrance Hayes

Poets Like Literature

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Thomas Hardy

Argument Own Manners Morals Poets Course Custom Them

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss. Tom Brokaw

You Kiss First Universe Guided Poets Mysterious Emotion First Kiss Still Condition Effort Unending Essential May Human Irreplaceable Artists Psychiatrists Cannot Human Condition Engines Describe Search Search Engines Compete Biologists

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. Tom Verlaine

Quality Distilled Those Poets Like Sound Wonder Chinese

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. Tom Wolfe

The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and reminds me of the grave and committed role of the poet. Although he was blind, Milton had one of the most unswerving gazes of all English poets. Tony Harrison

Me You Poet First TV See Poets Had He Reminds Most Blind Although First Thing Hallway Role Committed The First Thing English Who Large Bust Grave Thing Watch Milton

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody. William Ernest Henley

World Worth Made Reading Sense Everybody Hundred Worth Reading Born Poets Remembering True Like Friend Essayist Literary Confronted Your

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed. William T. Wiley

Good School Dancers Kids Pretty Pretty Good Poets Through Singers Educated Go Brainwashed Gets Artists Buried Being Good Artists Basically

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. William Wycherley

You Hate Poets Like Debt Friends Whom

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. Wislawa Szymborska

Time Myself Nature World Rich Think Distance Say About Objectively Something More Poets Points Look Duality Am Very Trying Personal Same Same Time Different Them Us View Many Each Things

I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused the world to be, and it seems to me that these stories of creation myth, adopted by different cultures - most of them are less insightful than the stories made up by individual poets and writers. Marvin Minsky

Me World Made Myth Own Creation Every Think I Think Insightful Seems Adopted Poets Individual Writers Idea Most Makes Caused Cultures Up Than Person Different Stories Either Different Cultures Them Less Who Eventually

I grew up listening to the 60’s and 70’s... storytellers and poets. Mandy Harvey

Listening Poets Up Grew Storytellers

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