“I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.” PeopleWritingBigsIndividualRoomsPoetReaderOne On One Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.” StoriesBigsMovingArtistBreakPoetNovelistsShort StoryBreak ThroughStory Writers Author:Gary Reilly
“Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.” MenReasonDoneWholeBigsAgePastPoliticalUsedMoralTakenPoetKingsBecomingPraiseCourtAbsurdSchemesEmployedDefenceOathResentBig BusinessPatronPatronageBusiness ManTimes Past Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.” ThinkingWantShouldWritingI CanBigsWrittenPoetDiscussionBig ThingsGreat Poet Author:Clive James
“The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.” WayKindLittlesDifferentEndsSometimesBigsArtistLostCitiesFashionDangerousPoetSceneActiveArtisticCorporateActivistDifferent KindsEdgyBig Cities Author:Patti Smith
“People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big.' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote from a poet I use all the time: 'Instead of asking what the world needs, ask yourself what you love,' because what the world needs is more people doing what they love.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsUseBigsAsksPoetGoodnessAskingWhat You Love Author:Maria Shriver
“Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.” WorldGivingKindLittlesHomeHandsBigsEyeAmericaFilmNiceTelevisionPoetMessagesShotsHorseCamerasRaisesFrankCowboyPitcherSnapsSwiss Author:Jack Kerouac
“My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.” BigsSituationCareersWifeFansPoetQuietIntellectualMalesMy WifeAlpha MaleJust LiveAlphas Author:Stephen Malkmus
“Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of the written word. But for me the urge toward poetry, that seductive feeling of being swept away by words, was enough for me to overcome that fear that my experiences weren't worthy of poetry itself.” EnoughFeelingsBigsYoungCitiesWorryWrittenPoetOvercomingTownsWorthyNativeUrgesImmigrantsUrbanSmall TownSuburbsSeductiveWritten WordBig CitiesSwept Away Author:Allison Joseph