“Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.” YoungAdvicePoetUnicorn Author:Martin Espada
“My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read widely, in a variety of time periods and cultures, to identify which traits of poems are appealing and which aversive. And what can be stolen.” CultureCommunityAdviceWillingPoetPeriodsVarietyTraitsStolenTime Periods Author:Lucia Perillo
“The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.” WantI CanSelfEnjoyAdvicePoetOffersBeing YourselfEnjoy YourselfWriters And Poets Author:Nikki Giovanni
“Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They feel, and often with considerable justice, that they are being overlooked while others with less talent are out there making careers for themselves. I always give the same advice. I say, Do it the hard way, and you’ll always feel good about yourself. You write because you have to, and you get this unbelievable satisfaction from doing it well. Try to live on that as long as you’re able.” WayGivingFeelsWritingTryingWellsLongSaidHardAbleYoungJusticeCareersAdviceTalentPoetSatisfactionCorruptionFeel GoodSubtleAbout YourselfUnbelievableOverlookedHard Way Author:Philip Levine
“My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen to a poem than it is to sit down and actually read it and to hear it in your head and that is something that every poet or aspiring poet needs to be able to do, I think to hear it in their head.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsWould BeAgeAbleSoundInterestingAdvicePoetEasierDown AndDigitalDigital Age Author:Rita Dove
“A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better.” KnowsSometimesHardWorstAdvicePoetOught Author:Richard Hugo
“Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes harm the novice poet by enticing him to pursue fashions. The poet's best hope is to sound like nobody else, The finest, most enduring poetry constructs a marketplace of its own.” WritingTryingSometimesFactsSoundMistakeAdviceFashionFieldsPoetEndureMarketingHarmPursuePoetry IsEditorsFinestConstructsMarketplaceHoping For The BestNovicesEnticingPsych Author:X. J. Kennedy
“My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world - unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.” PeopleWorldFeelsYoungDiesFightingWishEasyAdviceWillingPoetBlowGlad Author:e. e. cummings
“As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.” KnowsLooksEndsPlayAnswersAdvicePoetBabyFinalsGutsThe End Of The DayPlaywright Author:Stephen Karam