Quotes by Poet Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. Anne Sexton moderation poet saint Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery. Anne Sexton imagery poet heart One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring." Anne Sexton boring poet secret Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. Anne Stevenson poet criticism should I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. Anne Stevenson poet should thinking I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult role. Anne Waldman poet roles kind Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets. Annie Dillard finest poet There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. Anthony Hecht library poet memories Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Antonin Artaud poet reading way What the poet is searching for Antonio Machado poet fundamentals All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me. Aphra Behn privilege poet sex Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. Archibald MacLeish poet hurt men I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. Aristide Maillol sculpture poet These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! Aristophanes poet impossible Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets. Aristophanes poet masters children It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy. Aristophanes coarse poet taste Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. Aristotle philosophical plot poet The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses Arthur Rimbaud seers poet long For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets. Audre Lorde poet feelings men I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. August Wilson height poet firsts «1234567891011»
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