#poe

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. ↗

— Charles Olson

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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. ↗

— Charles Olson

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The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. ↗

— Charles Olson

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You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. ↗