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title: "17 Young Poet Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 17 Young Poet quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Young Poet sayings and thoughts."
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> [When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-orr/when-you-re-a-young-poet-reading-is-a-search-for-your-lost-family/)

[Gregory Orr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-orr/)

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> [But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-levine/but-i-m-too-old-to-be-written-about-as-a-young-poet/)

[Philip Levine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-levine/)

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> [As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/as-a-young-poet-you-need-corroboration-and-that-s-what-publication/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/as-a-very-young-poet-i-had-been-brought-up-on-that-dogma-that/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khaled-hosseini/dying-can-be-quite-the-career-move-for-a-young-poet/)

[Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khaled-hosseini/)

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> [Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/bad-luck-for-the-young-poet-would-be-a-rich-father-an-early-marriage/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [“Today a young poet brought me 75 poems, some of them many pages long, I shall no doubt make an enemy of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/today-a-young-poet-brought-me-75-poems-some-of-them-many-pages-long-i/)

[Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rita-dove/to-practice-your-scales-so-to-speak-in-order-play-the-symphony-is/)

[Rita Dove](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rita-dove/)

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> [I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-would-keep-in-mind-to-a-young-poet-that-you-are-entering-into/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [“The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/the-letters-to-a-young-poet-illustrate-perfectly-the-kindliness-the/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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> [I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-think-the-coming-of-spring-the-stars-overhead-the-first-snowfall/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [“You want to know, companions of my youth, How much has changed the wild but shy young poet Forever writing last poem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmanuel-lacaba/you-want-to-know-companions-of-my-youth-how-much-has-changed-the-wild/)

[Emmanuel Lacaba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmanuel-lacaba/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-larkin/i-think-a-young-poet-or-an-old-poet-for-that-matter-should-try-to/)

[Philip Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-larkin/)

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> [A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-wilson/a-young-poet-in-america-should-not-be-advised-at-the-outset-to-give/)

[Edmund Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-wilson/)

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> [When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/when-i-came-back-to-new-york-it-was-such-a-joke-because-i-was-always/)

[Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/)

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> [“Advice to a Young Poet Don’t spend yourself in the small copper coins of complaint and accusation. Don’t answer those in authority,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ondra-lysohorsky/advice-to-a-young-poet-don-t-spend-yourself-in-the-small-copper-coins/)

[Ondra Lysohorsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ondra-lysohorsky/)

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> [“She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-louv/she-was-one-of-those-exceptional-children-who-do-still-spend-time/)

[Richard Louv](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-louv/)

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                        "text": "“You want to know, companions of my youth, How much has changed the wild but shy young poet Forever writing last poem after last poem; You hear he’s dark as earth, barefoot, A turban round his head, a bolo at his side, His ballpen blown up to a long-barreled gun: Deeper still the struggling change inside.”",
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                        "text": "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.",
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                        "text": "A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.",
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                        "text": "When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who wasn't in it for what he could get out of it. And all of a sudden, the pure young poet comes back... and I'm hanging out with the Rolling Stones.",
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                        "text": "“Advice to a Young Poet Don’t spend yourself in the small copper coins of complaint and accusation. Don’t answer those in authority, those who fancy themselves all-powerful, with grubby, fingered words for which you’ll be picked up at three in the morning. Answer with pictures that no one has ever painted, answer with thoughts which no one has ever thought, answer with verses which no one has ever fashioned, answer with a language which no one has ever uttered. Not with the sword, poet, will you sly tyranny but with the freshness of spring and autumn’s maturity. Beaten and blood-stained, strike your gold coins, heavy with the destiny of your age, heavy with your own destiny, golden coins bearing your own likeness, reflecting mankind’s suffering against the background of man’s two million years upon our planet. Such coins shall stay in circulation even after ten thousand years, valid like life’s rebellious spring, like life repeating itself, ever-youthful— while the coins with the theatrical, proud and imperial gestures— the measure of pride reflecting stupidity— will long have lain dead in the museum show-cases under artificial light, shunning the sun, dead for a thousand years.”",
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                        "text": "“She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty - and refuge. \"It's so peaceful out there and the air smells so good. I mean, it's polluted, but not as much as the city air. For me, it's completely different there,\" she said. \"It's like you're free when you go out there. It's your own time. Sometimes I go there when I'm mad - and then, just with the peacefulness, I'm better. I can come back home happy, and my mom doesn't even know why.\" The she described her special part of the woods. \"I had a place. There was a big waterfall and a creek on one side of it. I'd dug a big hole there, and sometimes I'd take a tent back there, or a blanket, and just lie down in the hole, and look up at the trees and sky. Sometimes I'd fall asleep back there. I just felt free; it was like my place, and I could do what I wanted, with nobody to stop me. I used to go down there almost every day.\" The young poet's face flushed. Her voice thickened. \"And then they just cut the woods down. It was like they cut down part of me.”",
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