“I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.” FeelsDoeImportantJobsLinesComedyPoetAgreeDepthEtcGood Job Author:Rachel Zucker
“I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.” ThinkingWayFeelsNaturalPoetPoundsDiamondRewritingNatural Things Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these people to approve of everyone's manners. I don't feel obliged to defend the manners of every poet who submits a poem to my web site. That's not my job. My job is to provide them with an opportunity to speak from the heart. If there's not much in the heart and if the mouth is running wild, that's not my problem.” PeopleIfsFeelsHeartCountryProblemRunningJobsOpportunitySpeakHavensPoetMouthsAskingBillsMannersBehaveSubmitSiteObligedNewtsBill O ReillyRunning WildSpeak From The Heart Author:Sam Hamill
“I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets, I think this is a wonderful thing. I'm very excited by it. In a sense, there's a return, isn't there, to the old role of the poet, which was to speak to a group of people, to come across.” PeopleThinkingFeelsReadingSpeakRolesRecordsWonderfulGroupsPoetDevelopmentReturnExcitedWonderful Things Author:Sylvia Plath
“I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows or forces me to bring something that's supremely me onto the page. I used to think that the speaker of a poem was talking to someone else, to some ideal reader or listener, but now I think that speakers - poets - are talking to themselves. The poem allows you to pose questions that you have you ask of yourself knowing that they are unanswerable.” IfsThinkingFeelsUsedAsksForceTalkingKnowingPoetReaderPagesIdealsInvestmentSpeakersListenersTalking To Someone Author:Tracy K. Smith
“I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels - children and poets both tend to feel.” FeelsKindChildrenUniverseParentBornPoetLateOnly ChildCenter Of The Universe Author:Billy Collins
“The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.” KnowsFeelsKindStuffWonderfulPoetShapesEgoComplexesContemporaryAll KindsFormalInventingWindyWonderful TimesProsody Author:Anne Waldman
“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.” PeopleFeelsTryingFeelingsPoetryArtistLeaderRolesSocietyPoetReflectionPreacherHippie Book:John Lennon: drawings, performances, films Source: John Lennon: drawings, performances, films
“I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.” FeelsResultsClearPoetBecomingMusicianStrongerMental HealthAthletePhilosopherMissionsIntegratingJocksLethargyBecoming Stronger Author:Alanis Morissette
“I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.” FeelsKindSometimesMightSchoolSocialPoetGatheringWorkshopsGreat Poet Author:Mary Oliver
“A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.” KnowsFeelsShouldSecretPoetRootsFadesPsychologistFade Away Book:Essential Turgenev Source: Essential Turgenev
“I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.” FeelsWritingNovelPoet Author:Alice Walker
“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.” FeelsDeathThreeLossPoetStonesTemplesThree WordsGeisha Author:Arthur Golden