#poets

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

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

— Brian Harris

#heard #new #poets #sequence #words

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#day-to-day #had #happening #ireland #level

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ↗

— Heraclitus

#assistance #greek #i #i am #librarians

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forget #forgetting #literature #literature-quotes #old-stories

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#men #monotony #nature #poets #soon

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. ↗