#poets

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets. ↗

— Peter Davison

#realistic #were

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets. ↗

— Peter Davison

#most #poets #sophisticated

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work. ↗

— Peter Davison

#performance #poetic #poets #read #real

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. ↗

— Rita Dove

#enjoy #i #i love #lots #love

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#bodies #celebrate #did #poets #specifically

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#greek #lasting #latin #marble #must