#poets

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

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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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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. ↗

— William Wycherley

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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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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

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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

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Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence. ↗

— Brian Harris

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