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“I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Long Said Individual Responsibility Poet Window Towns Collectives Small Town Workshops Little Towns Collective Responsibility

Author:Eavan Boland

“I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough to believe there really was such a job. And if he could just write a poem that incorporated everything he felt and suspected and hoped for from America that he would have the position.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Believe Said Enough Helping Wanted Jobs America Found Felt Position Poet Innocent Sections Walt

Author:Allan Gurganus

“My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."”

Said Poet Contradiction Good Friend

Author:Paul Beatty

“I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Said Poet Lucky Exposed Hardy Great Poet Squash Auden

Author:David Duchovny

“A friend of mine, a poet, Rebecca Wolff recently said to me, "You know, your stories are really voice-driven," and I guess I knew that already, but it's so true that I can't get something going unless I can hear the voice.”

Knows Said I Can Stories Voice Mines Poet Driven Rebecca

Author:Lynne Tillman

“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”

Men Said Humor Poet Creating Performances Blind Ridiculous Driving Reasonable Sense Of Humor Craving Posture Sinister

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”

Said Truth Remember Mother Names Poet Truth Is Daughter Poetic

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”

Said Hands Pieces Poet Mirrors Broke Persian Hands Of God

Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf