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“Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.”

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Book:Lucretius On the Nature of Things

Source: Lucretius On the Nature of Things

“Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.”

Fiction Poet Shining Pursue Verses Brighter

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

“Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.”

Giving Fiction Air Poet Profession Liars Endeavour

Author:David Hume

“A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.”

Reality Order Hours Fiction Poet Missions Fiction And Reality

Author:Isak Dinesen

“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.”

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Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.”

Thinking Fiction Poet Dramatic Theatrical Fiction Writers

Author:Francine Prose

“The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald. He's wily, talented and-rarest of the rare-a true original. He writes melancholy poetry that actually has melancholy poets wandering around, but don't turn your backs on them, either. I am always eager to see what he's going to do next.”

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Author:Laura Lippman

“I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.”

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Author:T.C. Boyle

“When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. And the reason for that is because the fiction writers seemed to need to learn how to pay greater attention to language itself, to the way that language works.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

“That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

“We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry.”

Thinking Trying Hard Lasts Language Fiction Poet Fiction Writers

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas, Austin, and they collected some of his writings and put them in a little collection. It's called DreamTigers in English, but it doesn't exist in Spanish. It's a little sampler. But that collection in English is what struck me, because in there he has his poems, and I was a poet as well as a fiction writer.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.”

Kind Different Fiction Poet Comment Fiction Writers

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“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

“Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in the university, and so on. They seem more disconnected from each other than they did when I first began to write.”

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Author:Robert Hass

“When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Or the comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.”

“Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.”

Kind Care Fiction Danger Poet Becoming Fiction Writers

Author:John Updike

“Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.”

Writing Has Beens Powerful Fiction Example Poet Southern Fiction Writing

Author:Robert Morgan

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