Poets Write Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write…
— Miller Williams
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot…
— Eric Hoffer
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Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x,…
— Sharon Olds
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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto…
— Pat Conroy
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The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose…
— Eugenio Montale
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They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
— Tom Glazer
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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..…
— Kenneth Koch
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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to…
— Carl Sandburg
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All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
— Umberto Eco
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Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as…
— Robert E. Howard
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Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief…
— Upton Sinclair
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I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
— Erica Jong
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Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
— Brian Harris
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When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals…
— Joyce Carol Oates
Who Wrote These Poets Write Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Poets Write Quotes as follows: