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I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself. Juan Felipe Herrera
Myself Me Grateful People Before Philip Poets Very Get Here
Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country. Karl Philipp Moritz
Love Man Speak Country Rapture Only Poets He Feel Does How How Much Dearest His Affections Prussia Human Whilst Loves Much Who Describe Here
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them. Kenneth Koch
People Criticism Trouble Other Guess Poets Had Know Read Encouraging Role Getting Either Them Hard Plays
Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation. Kenneth Koch
Good Generation Three Poets Maybe Really Four
Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it. Kevin Young
History Thinking Way About Poets Dealing Often Move Moves Us Across
I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets. Kevin Young
World Looking Think Way Poets Powerful Powerful Way Know Historian Historians Them Worked Really
Not many poets have editors. Kevin Young
Poets Editors Many
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. Lactantius
Saying Possible Kingdom Both Poets Supplied Name Obtained Because Hint Mount Mountain Jupiter May Heaven Common
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan. Lady Gregory
Music Saying Good Great Man Fighting Every Secretly About Poets Could Had Sons Talk Making Ireland Did Brave Brave Man Them Much Skilled Used Deeds Every Man
Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non. Louis MacNeice
Experience Men Sense Other Poets Mysticism Instinct Implies Sine Most Narrow Foreign Hand Human Represents Which Specific
Female poets in the 17th century had these very confined, restricted lives. Louisa Hall
Restricted Poets Had Female Very Confined Century Lives
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. Lucille Clifton
Celebrate Mistake People Wish More Poetry Poets Write Wishes Celebrated Than Should
Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. Malcolm de Chazal
Women Philosophers Poets Make Children Us
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. Margaret Atwood
Later Immediate Favor Echoes Poems Poets Tend Conceal Like Lines Modern Middle Rhymes Placed Placing Them Avoid Many
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. Margaret Mitchell
Doctors Soldiers Statesmen Adopt Lawyers Poets Yankees South Low Produced Certainly Engineers Mechanics
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. Marguerite Young
Age Old Will Young Old Age Poets Dead Sure
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. Marilyn Hacker
Myself Creative Culture Writing Living Earn Consider About Poets Doing Up Wonder American Ended Literary Transmission Means Teaching Who Creative Writing Number Universities
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. Marilyn Nelson
Believe Seem Comprehensible Poem Poets Wrong Performance Makes Yelling Many
One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell. Mark Lanegan
Poet Favourite Poets Named Massachusetts Robert Very
When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. Marv Levy
Me First Reading John Poe Poetry Poets Edgar Read Were Rhyme Holmes Captured Oliver Started Started Reading
People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume the entire song - not just the external; they go inside. Mary Gauthier
Great History People Song Long Inside Able Entire Long History Poets Consume Take Songwriters Singers Go Ireland Just After Whole External
Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. Mary Lambert
Work Word Job Incredible Strive Poetry Poets Putting Spoken Spoken Word Lot Really Page Who
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. Mary Oliver
Love Time Old Challenge Poets New Up Same Same Time Old Ones Keep
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it. Mary Oliver
Writing Dance Feeling Poets Through Sort Tap Lot Now
At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all. Mary Oliver
Time Perspective Think Poets Involved Well Reader Up Did Personal So-Called Not Interested Literature Interested Growing Growing Up Specific
In reading, we are both scientists and poets. Maryanne Wolf
Reading Both Poets Scientists
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