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“All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.”

Thinking Faces Poetry Poet Intimate Face To Face

Author:Selima Hill

“As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.”

Knows Littles Faces Common Laughing Poet Tall Sneer Taciturn

Author:Carol Ann Duffy

“I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!”

Faces Poet Unwritten Ciphers

Book:Romola

Source: Romola

“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.”

Needs Hands Faces Poetry Land Youth Poet Fool All Things Driven Crafts Distraction One Time Verses Toil Accustomed Seeming

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.”

People Faces Poet Oppressed

Book:Beyond All Pity

Source: Beyond All Pity

“I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race”

Knows Faces Race One Thing Poet Kings Picks Down And Flats Get Back Up And Down Pirate Puppets Pawns

Author:Frank Sinatra

“POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?”

People Ifs May Faces Poet Weeping Creeps Peeping

Book:Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection

Source: Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection

“the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are”

Truth Faces Poetry Fighting Black White Dying Poet Truth Is Racism Mouths Black And White Face To Face

Book:Odes

Source: Odes

“Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.”

People Faces Talent Poet Actresses Suspicious

Author:Grace Zabriskie

“I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.”

Book Faces Moving Poetry Tears Poet One Day Ran Shelves

Author:William Everson

“For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to generations of immigrants. One of these immigrants was a poet-writer named Ameen Rihani. Gazing at her lamp held high, he wondered whether her sister might be erected in the lands of his Arab forefathers. Here is how he put it: "When will you turn your face toward the East, oh Liberty?"”

World Has Beens Inspiration Might America Faces Turns Liberty Greater Generations Land Poet East Symbols Immigrants Your Face Lamps Statues Gazing Forefathers Statue Of Liberty

Author:George W. Bush

“I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'”

Faces Poet Tvs Radio Complaining

Author:Felix Dennis