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“Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.”

Writing Father Poet Patterns Admire Dramatic

Author:John Dryden

“Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.”

Humans Age Artist Humanity Turns Father Poet Husband Novelists My Husband Breakfast Our Father

Book:Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution

Source: Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution

“I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.”

Said Father Careers Poet Decided Structure Boring Suitable Pension Boring Things

Author:Sue Townsend

“[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.”

Writing Firsts Children Age Mother Father Alive Poet Eight Mother And Father Pissed Off Odes Dead Mother

Author:Judith Viorst

“I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.”

Knows Writing Young Father Poet Normal Writing Poems

Author:Bernardo Bertolucci

“They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.”

Wisdom Poetry Father Poet

Author:Plato

“My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.”

People Way Wells Reality Law Mother Father Left Community Known Vision Groups Poet Clothes Artistic Alternatives Greek Well Known Hippie In-laws Weaving Artistic Vision Father In Law

Author:Anne Waldman

“I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.”

People Mind States Father Poet Admire

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years. We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet. Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.”

Writing Kind Age Father Imagination Party Enemy Possibility Poet All Kinds Chinese Barriers Communist Forbidden

Author:Ai Weiwei

“There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.”

Ifs Has Beens Father Written Poet Instant Roof Hallways Pittsburgh Smashing

Author:Michael Chabon