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“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.”

“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.”

People Should Writing Enough Novel Poet Fame Mouths Profit Bread

Book:Jane Austen's Letters

Source: Jane Austen's Letters

“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

“A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.”

Source: The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties

“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.”

People Ifs Feels Heart Country Problem Running Jobs Opportunity Speak Havens Poet Mouths Asking Bills Manners Behave Submit Site Obliged Newts Bill O Reilly Running Wild Speak From The Heart

Author:Sam Hamill

“A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.”

Light Beautiful Poet Holy Mouths Raises Spoons Your Beautiful

Author:Hafez

“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.”

Thinking War Truth Poet Quiet Mouths Silent Statesmen Times Like These

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays