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“Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.”

Ideas Age Poet Profession Chosen Magazines Editors Fifteen Publishers Procedures Magazine Editors

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.”

Cities Dangerous Poet Bases Finals Judgement Regions Editors Anthology Mirages

Book:Second words: selected critical prose

Source: Second words: selected critical prose

“If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.”

Ifs Writing Believe Would Be Space Poet Lows Tolerance Newspapers Supreme Editors Bullshit Reporters Outer Space Disclosure Filing

Book:Poetry as Insurgent Art

Source: Poetry as Insurgent Art

“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.”

“A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.”

Source: The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties

“I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.”

Believe Fiction Wonderful Poet Novelists Editors

Author:Frederick Busch