“I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.” IfsFeelsKindHas BeensMistakePoetDespairSuicideProfoundRateDistinctionCharlotte Author:Anna Wickham
“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.” WellsEyeJobsUsedArtistTurnsImaginationMistakeBrainTalentPoetPoliticianCookingFighterCooksEmpiresPrizeAssetsClevernessBuilder Author:Anne Ellis
“Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes harm the novice poet by enticing him to pursue fashions. The poet's best hope is to sound like nobody else, The finest, most enduring poetry constructs a marketplace of its own.” WritingTryingSometimesFactsSoundMistakeAdviceFashionFieldsPoetEndureMarketingHarmPursuePoetry IsEditorsFinestConstructsMarketplaceHoping For The BestNovicesEnticingPsych Author:X. J. Kennedy
“The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.” SometimesLove IsMistakePoetLove Mistake Author:Stephen King
“That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.” WayHumansMeanHardLanguageProcessInterestMistakeFocusOne ThingPoetMaterialsFocusedIntenseHorribleMysteriousHuman ExperiencePortalHorrible ThingsActivate Author:Matthew Zapruder
“Social media is alluring, tempting, frustrating, etc. We mistake our interactions in social media as community, but is community possible when you don't even know what someone looks like or what his or her voice sounds like? I've enjoyed connecting with a lot of poets through social media, but do I truly know them if I haven't even met them yet?” IfsKnowsLooksSocialSoundVoiceCommunityMistakeMediaHavensPoetMetsSocial MediaEnjoyedEtcInteractionFrustratingConnectingTemptingAlluring Author:Allison Joseph