#poets

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

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

— Diane Wakoski

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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

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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

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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

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