#poets

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. ↗

— Charles Olson

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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. ↗

— George Murray

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A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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