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“I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.”

Said Father Careers Poet Decided Structure Boring Suitable Pension Boring Things

Author:Sue Townsend

“It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.”

Seems Universe Poet Structure Philosopher Gaps Comment Dressings Patches Gowns Unjustified Nightcap

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?”

Want Helping Poetry Poet Blessed Structure Plot Rhyme

Book:Robert Lowell: a tribute

Source: Robert Lowell: a tribute

“There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.”

Too Much Poet Drug Structure Drinking Nervous Ritual Irresponsible Breakdown Nervous Breakdown Drinking Too Much Chasers Being A Lady

Book:Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987

Source: Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987

“That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.”

Knows Character Stories Order Fiction Know How Poet Creating Structure Developing Narrative Fiction Writers Narrative Structure

Author:Edward Hirsch