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“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

Thinking Wells Enough Individual Ability Interesting Attention Poet Depends Shapes Agree Impulse Visuals Bad Things

Author:James Laughlin

“Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.”

Should Writing Purpose Strong Sound Attention Poet Draws Defeat Stranger Impression Familiar Occasions Delightful Transmit Coarse

Book:The Lives of the English Poets

Source: The Lives of the English Poets

“I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.”

Poetry Causes Lines Pay Attention Poet Pay Attention Floats

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.”

Author:Nick Flynn

“The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.”

Ifs Poetry Attention Cases Poet Ought Faults Definitions Prose Relative Verses Propriety

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

“[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.”

Important Might Next Pay Attention Poet Important Things Add Pay Attention Bored Being Bored

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.”

Ifs Want Language Grows Pay Attention Practice Poet Sentences Pay Attention Prose Impatient Cadence

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.”

Way Writing Heart Mean Matter Hard Order Process Attention Teach Taught Poet Hard Work Bears Discipline Fruit Mess Pay Attention Scratches Erase Wrong Way Blur Matters Of The Heart

Author:Kathleen Norris

“Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.”

Attention Modern Poet Poetry Is Formal

Book:Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs

Source: Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs

“A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.”

People Way Writing Said Problem Inspiration Attention Creative Special Conditions Poet Demand Madness Concentration Vocation Creative Writing

Author:Stephen Spender