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#poets

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Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.


Carolyn Kizer


#commas #death #kizer #poetry #poets

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.


Rick Yancey


#failure #poets #death

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima


Ernest Hemingway


#hemingway #humor #poets #terza-rima #death

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.


Saul Williams


#favourite #going #gonna #lie #other

Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.


Fernando Pessoa


#freedom #poetry #poets #self-esteem #freedom

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.


Benny Bellamacina


#life #philosophical #poetry #poets #wisdom

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.


Aberjhani


#contemporary-literature #contemporary-poetry #destiny #famous-poets #initiation

You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.


William Carlos Williams


#kora-in-hell #modernist-poets #red-wheel-barrow #this-is-just-to-say #life

It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .


Lucia Perillo


#poets #life

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.


Dan Simmons


#life






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