“The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.” WorldSongPathPoetMusic IsShining Author:Lotte Lehmann
“Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.” YearsImaginationDealsPathPoetListsMake SenseTouchedMy Imagination Author:Adrienne Rich
“Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail.” WorldMadeHandsPathCuttingPoetGoes OnHighestMassPaidInsanityChapel Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and other Eastern European poetry and reading Russian poetry and reading Latin American and Spanish poetry and I've always found models in those other poetries of poets who could help me on my path.” HelpingReadingFoundLiteraturePathPoetAmountModelsHelp MeLatinEasternPolishLatin AmericaProvincesAmerican LiteratureLatin American Author:Edward Hirsch
“My path to poetry was slow and meandering. When I eventually found my way to graduate school at 29, making a life as a poet seemed like a bohemian fantasy. But maybe my zigzagging trajectory is just an excuse for tardiness, when fear is really the root of any reason I might give. My perfectionism and pace are certainly driven by fear that a poem is imperfect or incomplete. More significantly, my struggle to fully dedicate myself to poetry was a fear of failure.” GivingReasonSchoolFantasyStrugglePathPoetExcuseDrivenMy WayGraduatesImperfectFear Of FailureIncompletePerfectionismGraduate SchoolBohemianMy Struggle Author:Robin Beth Schaer