As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Today a young poet brought me 75 poems, some of them many pages long, I shall no doubt make an enemy of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“You want to know, companions of my youth, How much has changed the wild but shy young poet Forever writing last poem… — Emmanuel Lacaba Copy Share Image
I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
“Advice to a Young Poet Don’t spend yourself in the small copper coins of complaint and accusation. Don’t answer those in authority,… — Ondra Lysohorsky Copy Share Image
“She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty -… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
