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“But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.”

Years Lasts Poet Concern Snow Last Year

Author:Francois Rabelais

“When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.”

Giving Writing May Land Poet Flower Concern Rose Owners Yield Motto Simplest Gorgeous Ferns

Book:The Poems: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume

“Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.”

World Firsts Humans Stills Matter Moments Poetry Literature Events Poet Concern Verses Volume Insignificant Publication

Book:Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville

Source: Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville

“It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.”

Energy Poet Concern Tone Rhyme Truthfulness Fusion Cadence Buoyancy Fission

Book:Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

“As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think environmental concerns have to go to the deep place, so we speak from a place of great empathy for the planet - for the disadvantaged people, animals, places, cultures.”

People Thinking Want Spirit Culture Speak Animal Accepting Planets Poet Empathy Concern Environmental Oppression Disadvantaged

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My hope is that we won't have these environmental poets tucked over here and everybody else doing cool stuff with language and consciousness elsewhere, but that all of it will become one thing.”

Language Stuff Consciousness Environment One Thing Poet Becoming Concern Environmental Elsewhere Bleeding Cool Stuff

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.”

“I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.”

Mind Humans Important Young Term Poet Concern Entering

Author:Edward Hirsch