“Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.” ThinkingWorldTryingLooksDifferentViewsRichPoetDistancePoint Of ViewDualityDifferent Points Of View Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.” IfsPoetryPoorRichPoetSorryDullSparesCommonplace Author:William Bolitho
“Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.” WorldMayDoneEarthRichToo MuchTreePoetSweetFlowerRiversLovelyGoldenPleasantTapestryBrazen Book:An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition Source: An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition
“The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.” IfsYearsActorsLiteratureRichLandPoetHeroHundredTragedyJewPossessionClassicLastingFifteenAristocracy Author:George Eliot
“All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.” RealityImaginationCommonRichPoetPicksTasksRegardAgreementSurprisingThreadFabricColorfulDenseAll The BestPrimacyWild Imagination Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.” ShouldKindChildrenDoeIdeasDifferentLiteratureRichPoetPaperAcquireDedicatedDifferent KindsMarvelousLunaticMarvellousChildren's Literature Author:Joan Aiken
“Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973.” BookKnownRichPoetFeministEngagedAwardsVersesVolumeInfluentialWrecksDiving Author:Earl Scruggs
“Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.” LanguagePoorRichPoet Author:Stephen Sondheim