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The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.
David Walton
Me
Made
First
Society
Poets
Cry
Dead
Gets
Movie
Moment
Captain
When I first got to Motown, Smokey was already a fixture there. To me, he is one of the greatest songwriters and poets, so anything they ask me to do for Smokey is going to get a yes.
Dennis Edwards
Me
First
Poets
He
Songwriters
Smokey
Greatest
Got
Motown
Yes
Get
Going
Anything
Ask
There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.
Derek Walcott
Work
Nature
Corner
Intimacy
Kind
Introduced
More
Poetry
Poets
No-One
New
Most
New Kind
His
Hughes
Place
Landscape
Aspect
English
Deserving
Compelling
Ted
I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.
Derek Walcott
Poets
Write
Never
Well
Felt
Greatest
Trying
Inhibited
English
Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared.
Derren Brown
Day
Gay
Dark
Big
Society
Interview
Secret
Carried
Out
Following
Poets
Shame
No-One
Like
Dead
Reaction
Became
Around
Climax
Came
Child
Expecting
Gradually
Being
Newspaper
Capacity
Really
Actually
Thing
Cared
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
Diane Wakoski
Attitude
Women
Language
Sex
Beauty
Think
Those
One Of The Things
Poets
Contain
Toward
Attitudes
Ideas
Involved
Because
Very
Getting
Conventional
Etc
Race
Certain
Away
Things
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
Diane Wakoski
Myself
Me
Long
Before
Other
Hoping
Poets
Long Line
Part
Another
Pass
Am
Passing
Tradition
Line
Than
Which
Younger
Who
I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
Donald Hall
Death
Hope
Future
Good
Try
Seen
Some
Poets
Could
Write
Never
Disappear
Know
Sort
Were
Won
Prizes
Famous
Turn
Who
Many
I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.
Donald Hall
War
Rare
Books
Harvard
Poetry
Poets
Excitement
Because
Lot
Very
Bunch
After
Translated
Whole
Published
Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
Donald Hall
William
Williams
Moore
Rarely
Poems
Poets
Read
Were
Famous
Asked
Even
Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.
Donovan
Sense
London
About
Poets
Place
Sang
The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse.
Dorothea Dix
Remember
Soil
Our
Those
Sung
Besides
Immortal
Poets
Know
Well
Houses
Praises
However
Sake
Cultivation
Verse
Celebrated
Green
Native
Lovely
Justly
Who
European
Gardens
Daisy
It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.
Dougray Scott
Made
Difficult
Films
About
Poets
Get
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
Duke of Wellington
Hate
Word
Example
Say
Worthless
More
Poets
Never
For Example
His
Existed
Friends
Than
Race
Mean
Your
Professional
Whole
They Say
Believing
Set
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
Dylan Moran
Work
Myself
Comedy
Out
Charge
Admire
See
Rarely
Some
Poets
Writers
Over
Come
Although
Does
Comics
Very
Get
Fiction
Fiction Writers
Actually
I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
Eavan Boland
Hope
Future
Conversation
Fear
Will
Past
Believe
Out
Rather
Poetic
Voice
Poets
Still
Heard
Begin
Than
Turn
Turns
Many
Monologue
Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.
Edward Hirsch
Grief
Emotions
Poets
Always
Celebrated
Human
Human Emotions
Deepest
There was a time when poetry often made its way to vinyl; take a deep dive, for example, into the beat poets' countercultural albums of the 1950s to '80s.
Elizabeth Flock
Time
Made
Example
Way
Dive
Poetry
Poets
Beat
Take
For Example
Often
Deep
Vinyl
Albums
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
Ellen Forney
Myself
Way
Poets
Understand
Comics
Trying
Just
Process
Express
Things
It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.
Ethan Canin
Too
Say
Scale
Poets
Writers
Safe
Fiction
Fiction Writers
I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.
Ethan Canin
Try
Think
Poets
Go
Straight
Meaning
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
Eugenio Montale
Dangerous
Liberty
Negative
Took
Considered
Poets
Write
Self-Censorship
Advantage
Most
Advised
Exercise
Were
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.
Eyvind Johnson
Science
World
Men
Own
Aided
Others
Everyone
Ways
More
Various
Poets
Sought
Create
Manner
Means
Tolerable
Many
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
Felix Dennis
Complaining
Face
Our
TV
Poets
Hear
Did
Radio
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
Francesca Lia Block
Love
Parents
Teenager
Monthly
Introduced
More
Emily
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
Poets
Anne
Like
Also
Subscribed
Influence
Cerebral
Who
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Gabriela Mistral
Stroke
Direct
Voice
Indirect
Poets
Noble
Am
Undeserved
Spanish
Race
Fortune
Moment
Tongues
Portuguese
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