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“Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.”

Way Littles Different Speak One Thing Poet Speech Different Ways Songwriters Little Time

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.”

Knows Spirit One Thing Poet Metaphor Urges Poetic Like Something Markers Uranium

Author:Tony Hoagland

“The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?”

People Kind Persons Facts Would Be Belief One Thing Poet Ridiculous Naked Forbidden

Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race”

Knows Faces Race One Thing Poet Kings Picks Down And Flats Get Back Up And Down Pirate Puppets Pawns

Author:Frank Sinatra

“One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.”

Said Past Poetry Literature One Thing Poet Criticism They Said

Author:Philip Larkin

“The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.”

People Has Beens Made Care Justice Sin Simple Effort Class Written One Thing Subjects Poet Treated Reform Pounds Good People Rhetoric Essayists Scapegoat Orators

Author:Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

“The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My hope is that we won't have these environmental poets tucked over here and everybody else doing cool stuff with language and consciousness elsewhere, but that all of it will become one thing.”

Language Stuff Consciousness Environment One Thing Poet Becoming Concern Environmental Elsewhere Bleeding Cool Stuff

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.”

Giving Writing Firsts Culture Careers Impossible One Thing Teaching Divine Poet Obsession Poetry Is Lectures

Author:Maxine Kumin

“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.”

Way Humans Mean Hard Language Process Interest Mistake Focus One Thing Poet Materials Focused Intense Horrible Mysterious Human Experience Portal Horrible Things Activate

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things really made the rounds. I would meet people and they'd quote my poems to me. It's great.”

People Children Made One Thing Poet Rounds

Author:Mary Ann Hoberman

“When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry is the one thing keeping us alive and present, so what does it mean when one of our ranks chooses to end his or her life? There's an anger beneath the grief, you know? That anger and grief, in turn, breeds other poems from those of us left behind.”

Thinking Knows Mean Doe Ends Dies Turns Left Grief Behinds Alive One Thing Poet Poetry Is Left Behind Affront

Author:Allison Joseph