#poe

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#complicated #else #everything #life #poetry

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#get #ignore #making #most #poetry

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#greatest #i #poets #put

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite. ↗

— John Keats

#art

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. ↗

— Philip Levine

#always #am #because #grew #i

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#art #creating #gardens #imaginary #real

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect. ↗

— Jules Massenet

#agreements #beautiful #i #music #must

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #poems #want #write

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. ↗

— Peter Porter

#each #illustrations #in other words #kind #only