#poet

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#earning #i #living #poet #rather

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ↗

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ↗

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. ↗

— Don Marquis

#milton #poetry #saw #went

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#back #get #how #i #kidding

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#adolescence #eleven #great #had #i

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#actually #between #dislocation #distance #good

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#children #i #poetry #stories #want

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#charms #convince #done #enough #must

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. ↗

— Bette Midler

#me #music #poetry #rap #set