In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.
Billy Collins
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The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.
Steven T. Katz
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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
Wilfred Owen
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What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
Tommy Chong
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I always turn to Frank O'Hara and David Berman's 'Actual Air,' which came out in 1999. He's a poet I haven't tired of.
Terrance Hayes
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Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.
Robert E. Howard
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Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.
Ray Manzarek
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To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
Rita Dove
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I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
Nell Freudenberger
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I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
Mary Oliver
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A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
George Henry Lewes
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The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Lotte Lehmann
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices.
Juan Felipe Herrera
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My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.
Edward Hirsch
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
Yehudi Menuhin
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It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.
Joseph Brodsky
FreeAmericanHimAnythingPoet
Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
Walter Kirn
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How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.
Derek Walcott
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I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane. He's had many lives. My dad's a capitalist to his bone, but he's also a human to his bone.
W. Kamau Bell
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I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.
Christina Aguilera
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
Aristophanes
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