#poet

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#i was raised #lot #me #poet #raised

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. ↗

— George Eliot

#knowledge #poetry #art

To create art means to be crazy alone forever. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#bukowskisism #poetry #art

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#food #poetry

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#available #deeply #effective #every #headline

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. ↗

— David Hockney

#poetry #teach #well #you

All a poet can do today is warn. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#today #warn

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. ↗

— Alphonse Daudet

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