#poets

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. ↗

— James Broughton

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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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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

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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

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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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All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed. ↗

— William Wiley

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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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I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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

— Brian Harris

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