#poets

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 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

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. ↗

— Robert Graves

#anthropologists #between #connecting #forget #language

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time. ↗

— Robert Graves

#idea #me #money #never #person

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#bishop #elizabeth #francisco #i #imprisoned

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#film-makers #i #i am #influenced #more

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#crazy #like #loony #loony bin #poet

Poets wish to profit or to please. ↗

— Horace

#poets #profit #wish

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#poets #romance #experience