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“Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.”

Writing Father Poet Patterns Admire Dramatic

Author:John Dryden

“You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.”

Ifs Thinking Pay Poet Praise Admire Pardon Pardon Me

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.”

Mind Looks Poetry Violence Crazy Strength Poet Roots Sick Violent Forests Admire Native Primitive Cult Frontiers

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.”

People Mind States Father Poet Admire

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.”

Giving Littles Persons Action Taken Events Poet Regard Contrary Admire Immortality Historian Reverence Our Thoughts Achilles Aeneas

Book:The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'

Source: The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'

“Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.”

People Trying Hard Poet Ought Admire Possessed

Author:James Broughton

“Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.”

Way Sometimes Seems Poet Obsession Admire Landscape Peculiar

Author:Anna Journey

“I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.”

Years Behinds Poet Contemporary Admire Fifty Preference

Author:Sylvia Plath

“I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.”

“I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.”

Kind Feelings Religious Poet Refuse Admire

Author:Tony Kushner

“Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor. He's totally unusual, the way he talks and thinks and operates isn't in the same language as you're used to from actors who've been in a lot of things before. It brings this completely bizarre and fresh, wonderful way of approaching everything that I love being around. Not where I'm, as a producer, having to interact with him as an artist, but as somebody who can stand back and admire what he's bringing to this thing that I've nurtured to create a stage for him.”

Thinking Artist Language Love Is Wonderful Poet Incredibles Brilliant Admire Producers Unusual Bizarre

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.”

World Reason Fire Taught Poet Critics Admire Generous

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.”

Poet Sticks Admire Labels Native Adopted Allegiance Identification Unstable Tramps Vagrants

Book:Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil