#poet

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#after #again #birch #exactly #frost

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too. ↗

— George Murray

#fine #fine line #harder #humour #i

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#different #environment #medium #own #particular

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#america #attention #i #i see #paying

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#giving #like #looking #need #often

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work. ↗

— Philip Levine

#crummy #detroit #doing #fact #going

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#cares #conventional #conventional wisdom #either #football

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#any #every #every man #everywhere #had

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. ↗

— Macklemore

#challenging #front #more #people #piece

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#come #condition #forth #him #himself