Poet Quotes - Page 40

• Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

  Jean Houston

  Poetry And Music, World, Singers

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• Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

  David McCullough

  Companion, Whole Life, Entertaining

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen to a poem than it is to sit down and actually read it and to hear it in your head and that is something that every poet or aspiring poet needs to be able to do, I think to hear it in their head.

  Rita Dove

  Thinking, Interesting, Advice

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.

  Russell Simmons

  Believe, Men, Speak English

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• Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

  Russell Simmons

  Country, Inspiration, Writing

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• The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

  Russell Simmons

  Silence, Conscious, Stillness

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• People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big.' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote from a poet I use all the time: 'Instead of asking what the world needs, ask yourself what you love,' because what the world needs is more people doing what they love.

  Maria Shriver

  Thinking, People, Use

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• I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it - we got a lot of mail.

  Michael Graves

  Morning, Tea, Mail

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• Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

  Aristotle

  Witty, Men, Etc

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• For poets that have had my luck,
  Seldom write when they can kiss.

  Alex Comfort

  Writing, Kissing, Luck

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• A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inventor

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• It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

  Socrates

  Mind, Might, Seems

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• The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

  W. H. Auden

  Language, Born

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• Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

  Peter Meinke

  Jobs, Shapes, Formal

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• I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.

  Philip Larkin

  Couple, Reading, Thinking

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• You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

  Kenneth Koch

  Great Poet

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• We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?

  Edward Abbey

  Suicide, Book, Home

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• If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Believe, Writing, Editors

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• ... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved, And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.

  John Keats

  Mother, Dream, Art

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.233, Рипол Классик

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• A poet over 30 is pathetic

  H. L. Mencken

  Pathetic

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• The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Political, Quality

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• Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Horse, Cat, Should

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.141, Graphic Arts Books

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• I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Trying, Cards

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• No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Grace

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• I secretly assumed, as poets do,
  The duty on me to define the moon.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Moon, Duty

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.65, University of Texas Press

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