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“When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”

Inspirational Enjoy Sides Poet Deeper Holes Enjoyment Climbs Enlightened Scenery Dig Deep

Book:Venus in Arms

Source: Venus in Arms

“You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.”

Universe Sides Poet Ego Models Get Away Where You Are Equations Victorian

Author:Peter Wolf

“Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!”

Source: Questa è la mia lettera al mondo: poesie

“It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.”

People Way Writing Reason Seems Artist Sides Dangerous Poet Civilization Rhyme Abyss

Author:May Sarton

“But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.”

Heart May Ideas Beautiful Passion Language Sides Poet Flow Right Thing His Love Chaotic Irishmen Yeats Beautiful Poetry

Author:Chinua Achebe

“The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.”

War Hard Poetry Fighting Winning Sides Loses Poet Passionate Defeated

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.”

Poetry Song Sides Voice Tears Poet Madness Wings Breasts

Book:Poems and new poems

Source: Poems and new poems

“I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.”

Kind Sides Walks Imagine Poet Walking Drama West Paris Neighborhood Manhattan Apprenticeship West Side Lorca Peruvians

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there are more people writing poetry than possibly read it or can certainly earn a living around it.”

People Thinking Writing Culture Sides Dark Poet Program Dark Side Writing Poetry

Author:Edward Hirsch

“In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.”

Trying Kind Persons Certain Sides Poet Pages Tradition Connections Desperate Reach Out Friendliness American Tradition

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and not at all driven by ego or championing who he is as an individual. It's all about the art. Whereas Herzog is constantly placing himself into the engine. Malick is such a gentle poet.”

Art Character Individual Sides Term Poet Ego Driven Gentle Engines Spectrum Recluse

Author:Sam Pressman

“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”

World Poetry Names Sides Sleep Courage Poet Shapes Argument Poetry Is Fraud Going To Sleep Great Poetry Poetry By Poets Satanic Verses

Author:Salman Rushdie