#poets

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. ↗

— James Dickey

#because #claim #craft #does #done

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. ↗

— Rita Dove

#butter #favorite #i #may #more

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#constantly #discovered #encounter #feel #feeling

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. ↗

— John Fowles

#ones #poems #poets #simply #who

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#heart #her #his #last #men

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ↗

— Robert Frost

#both #intervals #like #moments #pitchers

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. ↗

— Robert Frost

#beginners #business #market #modern #money

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

#beautiful #beautiful things #belong #book #concrete

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. ↗

— James Laughlin

#becomes #friend #i #i think #individual