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Poet Quotes by Andrew Motion
- 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…
- But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
- I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
- Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight…
- If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden