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Poet Quotes by Rita Dove
- In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things
- There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is…
- My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
- Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.
- It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
- To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
- I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not…
- People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found…
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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
- 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