#poets

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