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Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways. Reza Aslan

Speak Political Language Secret Ways About Allegorical Poets Almost Talked Learned Issues Iran Political Issues Where Many

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us. Rita Dove

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He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they? Robert Adamson

Best Me Writing Confused State Those Visit Park Poets He Days Well Him Because Go Were Encouraging Very Getting Far Really Used Certainly Two

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from. Robert Adamson

You Add Boring Vital Pretty Something Poets Put Stuff Know Make Read Sort Lot Up Established Younger

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers. Robert Giroux

Good You Poets Know Readers Many

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time. Robert Graves

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. Robert Morgan

Writing Dramatic Poems Poets Narrative Still Southern Forms

Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor of a singular vision. Which resonates with me. Rodney Crowell

Music Me Vision Resonates Favor Compromise Poetic Poets Generally Singular Commercial Artist Sensibility Whether Which Speaking Americana Actual

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. Roger McGough

Alone You Together Worth Sometimes Made Poet Think Other Easier Though Worth It Carrying Scene Poets Writers Part Feel Is It Worth It Became Because Were Yes Very Different Even

When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that. Russell Tovey

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death. Samantha Shannon

Life Death Looking Before Ways Those Would Would-Be John Life And Death Emily Emily Dickinson Both Poets Tale Like Well Genre Read Handmaid Influences Interesting Dystopian Really Many Specialized Aware University

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People Critic Would One Thing Tried Poets Could Failed Talents Another Been Reviewers Historians Turn Who Therefore Thing

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret. Steven Sater

Musicians Secret Poets Always Been Huge

The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts. Susan Stewart

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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture. Tariq Ali

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