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Poet Quotes

I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.

J. R. Moehringer

Name Wish She I Wish Need Poet

Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.

Susan Holloway Scott

Daughter Lady Right Own Poet Her

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

Music Listening Want Bored Poet

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

Art Man Ideas Difficulties Him Poet

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Edmond de Goncourt

Man Ladder Violin Up Poet Star

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Opinion Thought Emotion Own Poet

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Barbara Kingsolver

People Humanity Fiction Own Poet

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Poetry Facts Language Creating Poet

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.

Marilynne Robinson

Work Good Brother Me Poet Going

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Lionel Trilling

Poetry Weather Forget Poet Used May

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

Time Warrior Time Goes By First Poet

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

Think Poet Going Schoolteacher

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

Short Long Mood Write Without Poet

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

First Poet Before Modelling Foremost

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

Gil Scott-Heron

Piano Poet Player Before

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Me Free Write Big Modern Poet

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Ernest Hemingway

Crazy You Poet Like Poets Pound

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Beauty Great Poet Sense Rather

It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.

You Country Interview Poet Poem

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

Literature Poet Asked Poet Laureate

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charles Baudelaire

Moral Force Poet He His Objective

I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet.

Amandla Stenberg

Think She Poet Just Fan Incredible

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Father Writing You Know Young Poet

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

Thought Back Say Everything Poet

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