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“One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.”

Knows Way Children Doe Artist Literature Wonder Know How Alive Poet Blessed Sense Of Wonder

Author:Ella Maillart

“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.”

Ifs Would Be Pieces Alive Written Worst Poet Essentials Dylan Texture

Author:Randall Jarrell

“What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.”

Men Needs Should Kind Helping Nations Common Alive Poet Lonely Fortune Warm Glorious Fifty Fourth Monument Civics Valor Dubious Orators Gregarious

Book:Essays in Religion and Morality

Source: Essays in Religion and Morality

“A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.”

Needs Alive Poet Wilderness

Author:Stanley Kunitz

“[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.”

Writing Firsts Children Age Mother Father Alive Poet Eight Mother And Father Pissed Off Odes Dead Mother

Author:Judith Viorst

“You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.”

Used Artist Quality Pieces Alive Mystery Produce Poet Paint Mediums Pot Unsaid

Book:The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu

Source: The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu

“But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.”

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Book:The White Goddess

Source: The White Goddess

“Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.”

Love Beautiful Poetry Alive Poet Illusion Mood Naked Venus Amorous Indefinable

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.”

Knows Young Alive Poet Dormant

Author:Alfred de Musset

“No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved, And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.”

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Book:The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

“Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.”

Knows Soul Wanted Alive Poet Quiet Do You Know Legends Cicadas

Book:G. John Berger

Source: G. John Berger

“If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.”

Ifs Made Beautiful Alive Poet Holy Pure Tradition

Book:My Study Windows

Source: My Study Windows

“With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.”

Talking Gone Alive Poet Mermaid Taverns

Author:Gregory Orr

“I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I had several poems that were apprentice poems like this in which I take a walk with a poet who is no longer alive.”

Firsts Book Use Walks Alive Poet Models Apprentice

Author:Edward Hirsch

“When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry is the one thing keeping us alive and present, so what does it mean when one of our ranks chooses to end his or her life? There's an anger beneath the grief, you know? That anger and grief, in turn, breeds other poems from those of us left behind.”

Thinking Knows Mean Doe Ends Dies Turns Left Grief Behinds Alive One Thing Poet Poetry Is Left Behind Affront

Author:Allison Joseph

“When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.”

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Author:Howard Nemerov

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