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“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.”

Body Poetry Literature Existence Identity Poet Filling Informing

Book:The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography

Source: The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography

“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.”

“[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.”

Reason Use Speak Language Existence Risk Poet Survival Conscious

Author:Adrienne Rich

“I write first drafts with only the good angel on my shoulder, the voice that approves of everything I write. This voice does'nt ask questions like, Is this good? Is this a poem? Are you a poet? I keep this voice at a distance, letting only the good angel whisper to me: Trust yourself. You can't worry a poem into existence.”

Writing Firsts Doe Asks Voice Existence Worry Poet Angel Distance Shoulders Trust Yourself

Author:Georgia Heard

“I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.”

Long Certain Levels Acting Existence Careers Poet Fame Raised Steady Murphy Brittany

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.”

Writing May Said Whole Action Existence Poet Demand Substitutes

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.”

Long Stills Age Lasts Values Humanity Existence Wonder Economy Seeing Middle Poet Shadow Islands Materialism Tribes Immoral Middle Ages Criteria Inhuman Global Economy

Author:Tiziano Terzani

“The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.”

Philosophy Enjoy Existence Poet Prove Philosopher

Book:The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination