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“I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.”

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Author:Josh Lieb

“I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.”

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Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.”

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Author:Peter Coyote

“Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that, poets didn't give public readings very often, certainly not - there was no circuit of schools.”

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Author:Billy Collins

“Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.”

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Author:Denise Duhamel

“In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.”

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Author:John D'Agata

“I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of a hat and so on, is not too good; I think it might have a bad effect on a great many of the young poets. They - to quote Mark Twain - "swap juices" a little too much, so that they are in danger of losing their own identity and don't give themselves time enough in which to work out what's really of importance to them - they're too busy.”

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Author:Conrad Aiken

“I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called beat poets, Allan Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, and Gregory Corso among them. The poems of Ogden Nash also inspired me, having first seen his work while browsing in a library when I was in the sixth grade.”

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Author:Douglas Florian

“I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, and other poets and writers. I always loved that experience: going and sitting in an auditorium and listening to their opinions.”

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Author:J. Cole