“The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.” WritingKindTwoDifferentParentMilitarySonPoetEuropeReactionsDifferent KindsProtectiveDistortionAnthologyCompulsoryMilitary Service Author:Laura Riding
“Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.” ChildrenPoetryLiteratureLanguageParentPoetEqualTreatsAffair Book:Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
“Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldLongUseLyingPoetryParentKnow HowLove YouObjectsPoetAdultsGuiltyInstantPoeticSpheresConcreteTime Of NeedStepchildStepchildrenNew Family Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.” MadeParentBornPoet Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon.” BookCountryFeelingsHomeWantedParentTakenSawsPoetGrewComfortableGrew UpLibraryIrelandBookshopsWriters And Poets Author:Michael Scott
“I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.” LooksBookWantedParentImpossiblePoetMy FamilyTypicalGrandparentExaltedJewish Family Author:Mark Leyner
“I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn't really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.” MeanIdeasWantedReadingBitsParentPoetAcknowledgeReally Romantic Author:Lena Dunham
“My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.” I CanDifferentParentPoetIndustry Author:Victoria Chang
“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