#poets

From oriole to crow, note the decline In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#music

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. ↗

— John Barton

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In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. ↗

— James Broughton

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Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be. ↗

— James Broughton

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

— James Broughton

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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. ↗

— Ice Cube

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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

#enjoy #i #i love #lots #love

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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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

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain