#poet

Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done or have fantasized about. love, deception, romance, fear, death, life, pain, & yes even happiness. writing is of a specific purpose & states a meaning within what is written. ↗

— Michael Stuckey

#poetry #recipes #writer #writing #death

The crown of literature is poetry. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#literature #poetry

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blind #craving #created #creating #driving

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. ↗

— Lotte Lehmann

#his #music #over #path #poet

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#actor #black #black and white #film #ford

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet. ↗

— Philip Levine

#i #old #poet #too #written

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. ↗

— Philip Levine

#myself #oblivion #once #ordinary #poet

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. ↗

— Philip Levine

#i #i can #intensity #poetry #realized

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet. ↗

— Philip Levine

#encouraged #i #lucky #me #mother

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice. ↗

— Philip Levine

#advice #care #doing #going #happens