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Poet Quotes by Kenneth Koch
- I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the…
- I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to…
- Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.
- I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.
- Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about..…
- As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and…
- I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even…
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- 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
- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden